Self Publish, Be Happy pop-up lounge 07.09–18.09.21

Self Publish, Be Happy, pop-up lounge
07.09–18.09.21

Instructional Photographs: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant
Instructional Photographs: Learning How to Live Now is a timely and explosive book by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls “instructional”, it asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? If so, how might we look to them to demonstrate new possibilities, from social organizing to self-actualization?

Promise Land by Gregory Eddi Jones
American artist Gregory Eddi Jones’ Promise Land is a visual poetic epic that usurps photographic convention to confront what the artist considers the spiritual poverty of common cultural pictures. The book uses T.S. Eliot’s Modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land (1922), as its point of departure, to create a sequence of images that picks up where the poem left off nearly 100 years ago.

Betterland by Gregory Eddi Jones

Say So by Whitney Hubbs
Say So brings together American artist Whitney Hubbs’ recent self-portraits, which were taken in the style of cheap, lewd pornographic pin-ups. After her acclaimed book Woman in Motion in which she photographed models, Say So continues her quest to explore and challenge the relationship between the camera and the female body.

Say So by Whitney Hubbs

To Be Determined: Photography and the Future by Duncan Wooldridge
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring a familiar medium with new eyes, the book proposes that photographs’ technologies, processes, experiences and products, are in fact geared towards a world to come, and not a world that has been.

For two weeks, Self Publish, Be Happy will turn Webber Gallery into a lounge, a place where we can meet and exchange ideas after the long Covid period. The space will exhibit new work by artists Felicity Hammond, Gregory Eddi Jones, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Karla Hiraldo Voleau and Carmen Winant, as well as selection of recent MA graduates from UK Universities. The space will also function as a temporary bookshop featuring new SPBH Editions titles by Carmen Winant, Whitney Hubbs, Gregory Eddi Jones and Duncan Wooldridge, and will be furnished with pieces by emerging designers selected by curator Laura Houseley.

During the evenings, the lounge will play host to a programme of free events which includes the first meeting of SPBH Monthly Book Club, discussing the new highly awaited book Instructional Photographs: Learning How To Live Now by artist Carmen Winant and an in conversation with writer Duncan Wooldridge with Sarah Pickering, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tom Lovelace. They will be talking about the provocation of Wooldridge’s new book, To Be Determined: Photography and the Future, and asking whether the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is an object of the past?

SPBH Lounge at Webber Gallery will be an opportunity to reconnect and read, listen, watch, buy in a space curated by Self Publish, Be Happy.

Events calendar

Tuesday 7 September 2021 from 6.30pm
SPBH LOUNGE OPENING
Featuring work by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Felicity Hammond, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Whitney Hubbs, Gregory Eddi Jones, Lijuan Liu, John Sachpazis, Michael Swann and Carmen Winant

Thursday 9 September 2021 at 5pm
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK
Duncan Wooldridge with Sarah Pickering, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tom Lovelace.

Saturday 11 September 2021 at 5pm
SPBH BOOK CLUB
with Carmen Winant

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Self Publish, Be Happy pop-up lounge 07.09–18.09.21