Image by Gregory Mackay

Image by Gregory Mackay

MONOGRAPH

MONOGRAPH was a reading circle for art lovers run by Sophia Cai and Charlotte Watson from 2016 — 2020. Unlike a formal book club where participants read the same book, MONOGRAPH was a reading group where members shared recent titles they had read that inspired them and their creative practice. There was no set genre, and we discussed everything from fiction, poetry, comics, art periodicals, to Ai Weiwei’s twitter feed.

MONOGRAPH Special Sessions

MONOGRAPH hosted special sessions with invited guest speakers, and also appeared at other related arts events. Our special sessions included:

  • Guest author: American art critic Ben Davis, author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

  • MCA Zine Fair 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

  • Craft Cubed 2016 with special guests Ramona Barry and Beck Jobson

  • NGV Art Book Fair 2017 as part of the Endless Book Club with Self Publish, Be Happy

  • Full day program at Verge Gallery, Sydney including a standard reading circle session, a book swap, and a panel with guest speakers Glenn Barkley, Astrid Lorange, Noel McKenna and Emily Parsons-Lord.

  • Two part-program at MPavilion 2018 including a standard reading circle session and a panel with guest speakers Rachel Ang, John Brooks, Martina Copley and Eugenia Flynn.