Welcome to the WWIM library! This is a (very much) non-exhaustive list of books which we think may interest people who are in the WWIM orbit, and/ or are difficult to get a hold of. We’ve started this off for a few reasons:

  • Relying less on social media/ short form content for learning is very important and something we are trying to do (bring back attention spans amiright)
  • It can be hard to know what is even out there related to exploratory music, community building, social justice/ issues/ ‘australia’, and hopefully this can be a starting point for people
    • The above is especially relevant for local, limited edition print runs, which is why we are so excited about the Zines and poetry collections by local authors in the library
  • This collection can give people an idea of our values and interests, and the ideas which influence us, which is useful in providing accountability to the ~scene~ 
  • Sharing is good, saving money is good, reduce reuse recycle, community and connection are always things we need more of, yahoo!

how it works.

You can borrow books at WWIM events, or by emailing us a request so we can work out how to get it to you. We will take down your email address and update our spreadsheet so we can keep track of what you’ve got.

To return, same deal: bring to an event or email us at wwimfest (at) gmail (dot) com to sort it out. All books have a WWIM sticker on the spine and some info behind the front cover, which includes our email address and whether or not it’s okay to dog ear/ scribble in the book you’ve borrowed. Please note that if you majorly damage or lose the book you’ve borrowed, we may ask you to replace it.

If you have any requests for additions, we are very open to it, and if you have books which you would like to add to our collection, please get in touch. 

the wwim library catalogue:

  • Art Monsters: unruly bodies in feminist art by Lauren Elkin
  • Art Without Capitalism by François Hers and Xavier Douroux
  • A Story to Tell by Laurel Nannup
  • Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner
  • Black Convicts: how slavery shaped Australia by Santilla Chingaipe
  • Close to the Subject by Daniel Browning
  • Crybaby by Mabel Gibson
  • The Relationship is the Project: A guide to working with communities edited by Jade Lillie and Kate Larsen with Cara Kirkwood and Jax Brown
  • Culture is not an Industry: Reclaiming art and culture for the common good by Justin O’Connor
  • Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly
  • Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia
  • East to West with Fight, Flight, Freeze (Zine) by Jenny Hickinbotham
  • How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
  • I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore
  • Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music by Derek Bailey
  • Marrugeku: Telling That Story edited by Helen Gilbert, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain
  • Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls by Alan Harvey
  • Of Cloven Hoof in Honey (Zine) by Nika Mo
  • Pioneering Women of Electronic Sound Volume 1 (Zine) by Mara Schwerdtfeger
  • Resin Polybutylene by Madeline Doncon (Zine)
  • Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry edited by Sara M Saleh and Zaimab Syed with Manal Youmus
  • Scores Volume 1 by Mystery and Wonder (Zine)
  • Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water by Amorina Kingdon
  • Silence by John Cage
  • Song Spirals: Sharing women’s wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay’wu Group of Women
  • Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond by Stefan Helmreich 
  • Spectres IV: a thousand voices by Shelter Press
  • Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine by Rachel Dedman
  • Strands: A Micro Memoir by Madeline Doncon (Zine)
  • Symbiosis (Zine) by Tenth Muse Initiative
  • Terraglossia by Dr Debra Dank
  • That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs by Denise Cook
  • The Future Keepers by Nandi Chinna
  • The Mires by Tina Makereti
  • The New Hesperian Issue One (Zine)
  • The Plains by Gerald Murnane
  • The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
  • Where Water Meets Land (Zine) edited by Maile Bowen, Claudia Carles, Desmond Tan
  • Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian
  • Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands by Salomé Voegelin
  • Yiz County Public Digest Issue 1 (Zine) by Yiz County
  • Yiz County Public Digest Issue 2 (Zine) by Yiz County

happy reading!