‘BODY OF WORK’
Even when they use ‘lenient’ methods involving confinement or correction, it is always the body that is at issue.
— Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 1975
‘BODY OF WORK’
Publication and Launch *
Imprint Contemporary and XS (@xsiseverywhere) are collaborating for the launch of BODY OF WORK, a new artist book by Tom Craft.
Bringing together independent publishing, local artists and live music, the launch extends the book’s interest in collective and materially entangled forms of cultural production.
XS will perform alongside two major local acts, both remaining unannounced until closer to the event.
A limited release of discounted early-bird tickets is available now.
Date: 12th December
Venue: GoodSpace Gallery (Lord Gladstone Hotel)
Early bird: $20 · General admission: $30
Artwork by Aiden Campbell from XS
BODY OF WORK is an artist book by Tom Craft exploring how photography might be reconfigured through new-materialist and agential-realist thought.
Bringing critical writing into relation with an expanded studio practice, the book approaches photographs not as fixed representations, but as material events produced between bodies, objects, technologies, histories and spaces.
Through critical writing and artistic praxis, BODY OF WORK considers how photographic subjects are measured, assembled and continually remade. As such, the series of essays ask what becomes possible when the less violent image ecologies are enabled.
Published by Imprint Contemporary
Limited edition of 100
Approx. 100 pages · 210 × 155 mm · Coptic stitched
Preorders shipped by December 2026
(Image not indicative of final product, details are subject to change)
BODY OF WORK — BOOK + LAUNCH TICKET
Preorder a limited-edition copy of BODY OF WORK and receive entry to its official launch, presented by Imprint Contemporary in collaboration with XS.
The evening brings the publication into a shared space of live sound, images and collective encounter, with performances from XS and two surprise major local acts.
This bundle includes one launch ticket and one Coptic-stitched copy of BODY OF WORK at a discounted combined price.
Books will be available for collection at the launch or shipped by December 2026.
Limited quantities available.
Artwork by Aiden Campbell
“In an age of facial recognition, algorithmic surveillance and unprecedented image saturation, this book asks how photography shapes what we see, as well as who is seen, classified and controlled. Moving from colonial archives to contemporary systems of digital monitoring, it reveals how the camera continues to reproduce unequal ideas about truth, identity and power. Through experimental writing and image-making, the book imagines a more responsible photographic future. One that resists surveillance, embraces complexity and works toward less-violent ways of seeing.”
— Tom Craft, Author
Image by Chali Mendoza Mendez, 2026