“Speculative Futures: Social Practice, Cognitive Capitalism and/or the Triumph of Capital”
I’m happy to announce the publication of Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure, with my essay “Speculative Futures: Social Practice, Cognitive Capitalism and/or the Triumph of Capital,” a critique of social practice and the art world’s complicities with neoliberal capitalism. Among the artists I discuss are Martha Rosler, Stephanie Syjuco, The Institute for Figuring’s Crochet Coral Reef, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Julieta […]
Interview with transaudacity
Recently I sat down for a conversation with Kean O’Brien about my art & writing practice, held in my dining room which is my work space. It’s a pleasure to be asked smart questions and to compare working processes with other artists. See it here.
TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time
So happy to have my essay in TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time, edited by Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place. I’m in great company: Harold Abramowitz, Danielle Adair, Stan Apps, Nuala Archer, Dodie Bellamy, Sissy Boyd, Melissa Buzzeo, Amina Cain, Jennifer Calkins, Teresa Carmody, Allison Carter, Molly Corey, Vincent Dachy, Lisa Darms, Ken Ehrlich, Alex Forman, […]
Animal Shelter Issue 4 Published
I’m happy to have a short story, “Charity Meat,” in issue 4 of Animal Shelter, which circles “a constellation of sex, exchange, and debt.” With writing and art by Alain Badiou, Tony Duvert, Thomas Gokey, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kevin Killian, Maurizzio Lazzarato, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Alice Notley, Dorothea Lasky, Dana Ward, Jackie Wang, Emmanuel Moreira, Marie Buck, Lisa […]
Publication of I’m Very Into You
I’m happy to announce the publication of I’m Very Into You, the correspondence of Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, edited and with an introduction by me. After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails are a […]
LACE Emerging Curators Award Announced
LACE is proud to announce the winners of its inaugural Emerging Curators program, Idurre Alonso and Selene Preciado. As Los Angeles’ premier experimental non-profit exhibition space, LACE created this opportunity to discover and promote curatorial talent. Jurors Connie Butler, Chief Curator, Hammer Museum; Nery Gabriel Lemus, Artist, Curator and Educator; and Matias Viegener, Artist, Critic and Curator. Alonso and Preciado, who co-curated several […]
Announcing the Kathy Acker Fellowship
This week, the Los Angeles-based publisher Les Figues Press announced the Kathy Acker Fellowship, a part-time, nine-month fellowship for “an emerging writer/artist, literary editor, or arts curator/organizer” operating in Acker’s tradition of “innovative, exceptional text-based practices.” The fellow will write for the Les Figues blog, work on Les Figues publications and help organize two events about the intersection […]
Announcing &NOW 2015: Blast Radius, March 25-28
I’m proud to be one of the co-organizers of &NOW 2015, a celebration of writing that explodes the boundaries of visual art, music, filmmaking, and performance to create entirely new artistic forms. The festival will be held on the CalArts campus beginning March 25 and concludes March 28 with a keynote address by M. NourbeSe […]
ENTER>text Anthology
Am halfway though the ENTER>text anthology and am so happy to be in the company of Samantha Cohen, Emerson Whitney, Yelena Gluzman & Jen Hofer, Saehee Cho, Janice Lee & Laura Vena, Diana Arterian, Amy Howden-Chapman, Joseph Mosconi, Emily Kiernan, Kenyatta A C Hinkle, UNFO (Amanda Ackerman, Harold Abramowitz, & Andrea Quaid), Stephen van Dyck, Km Bradford, […]
Performance and Panel Presentation for ART=TEXT=ART in Buffalo
I’ll be giving the opening performance at the Sexuality of Words conference (Nov 7th & 8th) being held in relation to the exhibition ART=TEXT=ART: PRIVATE LANGUAGES / PUBLIC SYSTEMS at the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, NY. The first piece is Jam Score (2009), an event score created in collaboration with Fallen Fruit, which I co-founded. […]