Aye-Aye Books
A contemporary art publisher and bookseller based in Glasgow and Salford.
A contemporary art publisher and bookseller based in Glasgow and Salford, Aye-Aye's aim is to propagate publications that are independent, intemperate, indigenous and intercontinental. In 2006 Martin Vincent moved to Glasgow from Manchester, where he had been co-director of the International 3 gallery and i3 Publications. In Glasgow, he found a city with plenty of galleries, loads of artists, but no specialist art bookshop. i3 was re-branded as Aye-Aye Books, and, in collaboration with Sapna Agarwal, Vincent opened Aye-Aye Book Depot – a year-long independent bookshop/project space at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. With one foot in England at the Aye-Aye Sorting Office, Islington Mill, Salford, Aye-Aye's transnational publications programme has recently dispensed books by David Mackintosh, Rachel Goodyear, Edwina fitzPatrick and Esther Shalev-Gerz. It now has a new retail base, Aye-Aye Book Kiosk in Glasgow's CCA, and a new website under development, which will provide a comprehensive resource of books by Scottish artists. Aye-Aye's next project is to build some more shelves.
c/o CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
www.aye-ayebooks.com
martin@aye-ayebooks.com
T: 07946 643 757
Essays
Not about institutions, but why we are so unsure of them, by J.J. Charlesworth.
Why an institution of contemporary art(s) like this, and not any other?
Gazetteer
Artist-run spaces and organisations (England, not London)
Artist-led organisations that support networks of emerging art in England outside London.
Coverage
Nought to Sixty in pictures
Photos of the projects, artists and audiences taking part in Nought to Sixty.
Coverage
Salon Discussions
Nought to Sixty includes a series of monthly discussions that address the networks that form and contribute to an emerging scene.