B.O.O.K’s Linoleum Dreams

Access:

As B.O.O.K is an active working site, public access must be arranged in advance of visiting. B.O.O.K is housed in a caravan and can only be accessed via a step at the entrance.

You can see Linoleum Dream digitally here.

Exhibition Overview:

Building.Our.Own.Knowledge (B.O.O.K) is an art, library, rest station to nurture and share knowledge by any means necessary.

Building.Our.Own.Knowledge (B.O.O.K) is a co-created space for interrogating, finding, making, and sharing experiences and knowledge emanating from Black beings in particular. The communal project is an invitation to re-think and re-make knowledge and culture on our own termS.

B.O.O.K is a radical reclamation of creativity and/in public space. B.O.O.K (r)evolves through radical sharing, caring, and disrupting by using and developing non-extractive collective mechanisms for reinventing the everyday as a political space for collective healing and liberation. The soft infrastructuring of B.O.O.K is supported by a self organised working group composed of Black artists, writers, researchers, facilitators and curators. We are running artist residencies and commissioning West-Midlands-based Black artists, inviting Black authors and artists to share their knowledge, hosting artworks and supporting Black filmmakers, ultimately attempting to build a loving environment.

B.O.O.K aims at facilitating access to, creation, and knowledge-sharing by any means necessary.

Artists include:

B.O.O.K working group: melissandre varin, Antonio Roberts, Mojere Ajayi-Egunjobi, Jae Tallawah, Samiir Saunders, Sym Mendez, Last Mafuba, Hannah Adereti, and Ayesha Jones

We have had the pleasure to have Ryan Christopher and Loraine Masiya Mponela as B.O.O.K first residents based at linoleum dreams.

This exhibition is supported by:

UK City of Culture 2021, Arts Council England, Art Fund, Coventry Artspace, Talking Birds

B.O.O.K is generously supported by:

National Lottery Communities Fund

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