Her work may concern itself with avatars, but her life concerns itself with us never being able to make her into one. She challenges ideas of the dimensional by including click-through links in several pieces. Andrew Durbin is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Rather, when Huxtable names a site of violence, the interest seems to rest within the power dynamics of individuals, or entities, at the site of tension. The memes are so funny. " Maybe so, but she says she finds "most of the conversations around transness generally to be really problematic, and kind of late. " What is real and what is simulated? Inkjet prints, vinyl and magnets on metal sheets reference a DIY aesthetic with slogans like "TERF WARS" and "REAL WOMAN FOR SALE RENT OR TRADE. " REAL DOLLS, ANIMATRONICS, FAUX-HUMAN ACCESSORIES, THE ABOLITION OF LAWS SURROUND ADOPTION, EX-VETERO FERTILIZATION. These poems and performance texts memorialize the internet in loud clanking blue letters, they time stamp the ephemerality of screen text. Anne Lesley writes about images, form, beauty, invisibility, formlessness, social death, and political emotion. The book, Mucus in my Pineal Gland, is the primary reason for my visit. More of an art book than a book of poetry, Huxtable's book focuses on the body, sexuality, and the internet. Encountering Huxtable's artwork from a distance soon after I came out (to myself) as trans (before this book was published), it was already clear that she had managed to give shape and character to a particular post-tipping-point moment: where anything and anyone seemed possible and yet, since so many trans people were finally sharing their experiences out loud, the shared and unshared (heavily racialized) challenges we face seemed all-the-more omnipresent, and harrowing.
Industrial Studies Books. How do we get outside of that symbolically? The poems in Mucus act like an acid bath, dissolving anything and everything into a here congealing, there separating mass of bubbling identities and experiences — always clarifying distinctions at the very moment they collapse back in on themselves. Have doubts regarding this product? Capricious & Wonder. HOWEVER, THIS INTERPRETATION FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF THE HOUSE. Author: Christopher Soto. Huxtable's recent book, Mucus in My Pineal Gland, takes on media's constituting powers in our desires. There's even a piece that is a blank page, called "THE ETHICS OF THE CLICK-THROUGH LINK, " where the void is not a placeholder. MUCUS IN MY PINEAL GLAND.
She is an icon to many trans and gender non-conforming communities. 03 hrs: 29 mins: 42 secs. To a similar effect, her discussions of state violence sidestep a voyeuristic gaze. FEELS LIKE CYBERSPACE. I read it all over 3 days. Capricious LLC Society and Culture Books. There is a refusal towards assimilation that is not only seen in the philosophical concepts of the work but also in how the work is functioning linguistically. Perhaps better read in 2017 than now. While sitting in the spa, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and I begin to talk about the all-caps wording that is a signature in Juliana Huxtable's work. On a weekday afternoon in late May, I make my way up to the top floor where Huxtable works, though the 29-year-old artist, poet, performer and DJ hasn't arrived yet. Steven Zultanski, 4Columns. One of my first questions is about the the font choices for Mucus in my Pineal Gland, whether they are meant to help delineate form. For Huxtable, this site of racial domination during sex is a place where her blackness can be unassimilated, unconfined, and more authentic to her experiences. Who tf was saying HAM before that?
Printed Matter's online catalog is one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of artists' books and related publications. Mucus in my Pineal Gland, published by the arthouse press WONDER, is an amalgamation of poetry, performance texts and essays. Besides, she laughs, "Everyone I know is having a great time. She was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, curated by Ryan Trecartin and Lauren Cornell. He is currently writing a book about Raymond Pettibon. Huxtable will mention Kant or Octavia Butler, insert a url link into her poem, then mention Britney Spears, Hot Topic, and AIM Chatrooms. Publisher: Wonder / Capricious. It's almost like revenge in this weird way, where people hold on to an idea that they have about something that's right, and the fact that [it] doesn't exist anymore is something that they feel needs to be acknowledged by the world as a harm. " By Juliana Huxtable. Purchase Juliana Huxtable's Mucus in my Pineal Gland, here.
Poetry appears lately in The Chicago Review, Fence, Elderly and Eleven Eleven. There is often an urgency and a demanding to be heard. But of course, the artists and writers who define a moment often pass into history as the next moment arrives. Co-published by Wonder. For example, the title of the book and many other parts of the book are enamored with the grotesque, the sexually perverse, and unspoken oddities (in a push against what is considered socially acceptable to discuss). She will reference fashion designers, social media platforms, queer/trans theory, musicians from throughout the 1990's, various technologies and she will intermingle these subjects with poetic technique such as alliteration, repetition, internal rhyme, and so on. I like the idea of all caps as our aesthetic. She's been based in New York for more of the year than she's used to spending in the city to finish the book, and to mount her exhibition, A Split During Laughter at the Rally, at the Reena Spaulings Fine Art gallery.
As I wander through Reena Spaulings taking in Huxtable's show, which, per the exhibition's press release, suggests that "sci-fi, sex and magic are the weapons of choice for a conspiracy more virulently alive than any of its supposed authors, " I wonder where on her itinerary Huxtable is. 7:30pm, reading starts promptly at 8pm. Huxtable seems to be interested in making visible sites of struggle for power and livelihood that are often unnamed. The revelatory poetry and essays have an insistent tone, and the adventurous page layout/type treatments give the writings a sense of tangling/untangling. A LARGE FAN AT THE TOP OF THE ROOM BLEW SHREDS OF PRINTED JPEGS OF CONSTITUTIONS, DECREES, REVOLUTIONARY TEXTS AND OTHER THINGS OLDER WHITER VERSIONS OF 'THE MAN' PAST USED TO CERTIFY IN WORD THE MERGER OF THOUGHT AND OBJECT.
This is to say that Huxtable was ahead of their time. Underneath, we are fluids. 12174 items from 4691 publishers, 8891 artists... Constanza Valenzuela. Available at St Marks.
On her desk, the back cover of her new book is facing up so an image of her, with orange hair and blue mascara applied to her eyes and her eyebrows, is smiling at me while I wait. Her characters are not ciphers, which she reminds you through her writing. ISBN-13: 978-0997444629. Hypertext realness or some shit. © 2005 - 2019 Libraria Dukagjini. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of 🍪🍪🍪. Accoutrements enhance the form, while covering scars. THE FLOOR WAS COVERED IN NECK RUFFS, OUT-DATED COLLARS, CORSETTES, VEILS, TAPESTRIES AND BROKEN PIECES OF GRECO ROMAN COLUMNS. It is as if the poet is saying I'm here, I'm alive and you need to listen to what I'm saying. "Full of specific stories of trans life, growing up black, and youthful understandings of the limitations and malleability of gender roles. " There are so many people that are so funny. Be the first to Review this product.
Innovation abounds, and Huxtable not only sprawls inside her pieces, but across them. Pornographic polytheism in 480 x 360 pixels. Her humor is present in her exhibition's film, A Split During Laughter at the Rally, which features a post-Trump protest with glamorous, bored demonstrators coming to terms with complacency, while a man yells, "Don't you realize all of our lives are on the line right now? THE WALLS OF THIS VERY LARGE ROOM WERE COMPLETELY COVERED IN SCREENS LOOPING SCENES OF AMERICAN ACTORS SPEAKING IN BRITISH ACCENTS PLAYING CHARACTERS, BOTH FICITONAL AND 'REAL'-ISH IN NATURE SUPPOSEDLY IN ANCIENT EGYPT, 18TH CENTURY FRANCE, BABYLON, SO FORTH AND SO ON... ALL IN BRITISH ACCENTS. You might be interested in.