Tai Kwun Contemporary’s BOOKED: 2021 Art Book Pop-Ups returns for its third and special “boutique” edition from 25 to 28 February 2021 (Thursday to Sunday) across various locations at Tai Kwun. Featuring more than 80 artists, publishers, organisations and booksellers, BOOKED: 2021 is Tai Kwun Contemporary's annual celebration of art and publishing. Artist-made and artist-centred books—including zines, photo books, monographs, and critical or experimental writing—will be available for sale alongside associated publications and ephemera. This year, BOOKED: 2021 will once again feature Hong Kong-based participants who will share their materials on site, along with those hosting non-local participants who will contribute from a distance through a special “twin” partner programme. Due to the pandemic, BOOKED: 2021 is presented within various “pop-ups” throughout the heritage buildings at Blocks 1, 3, and 9, around the Parade Ground of Tai Kwun, and will adhere to the latest health and safety regulations and enforce social distancing measures. As a special “boutique” edition, this temporary measure will spread out the event across more spaces and will enliven the heritage buildings around the Parade Ground. Tickets will be free, but pre-registeration is strongly advised. BOOKED: 2021 aims to highlight the intrinsic nature of books and the efforts of those who continue to make, publish and circulate them, while offering the chance for disparate people and communities to connect over great distances. Given the seismic shifts influencing the flows of information and people worldwide, the impulse for art in print to circulate remains strong. It reverberates in BOOKED: 2021 through its participants’ publishing practices, as well as through this year’s commissioned editions, displays, projects and programmes that demonstrate how networks among artists and publishers both reference the history of mail art while continuing to explore possibilities within the digital domain. “Reverberations” of the past also present themselves in both image and sound, through artists working to find ways to bridge distances both near and far, be they real or imagined. Pre-registration on the Tai Kwun website is open now; limited numbers of tickets will be available on site.Check out for more details: http://bit.ly/2ZFEdTL (Event photos of BOOKED: 2020, by South Ho.)