Pandemic Performance
Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times chronicles the many ways that people survived/thrived through performance in the first year of the global pandemic. Covering artists and events from across the United States: from New York to California and from South Dakota to Texas, the chapters are equal parts theory and practice, weaving scholarship with personal experience from contributors who are interdisciplinary artists, scholars, journalists, and community organizers providing unique and invaluable perspectives on the complicated work of resilience during COVID-19. Co-edited with Kendra Claire Capece, with contributions by Charles O. Anderson, Theresa Buchheister, Brittany Talissa King, Lee Painter-Kim, Joya Powell, Ricardo iamuuri Robinson, Marz Saffore, and Autumn White Eyes.
Copies are available here.
Rag and Bone Aesthetics
Rag and Bone Aesthetics is a transdisciplinary book project about the USA’s addiction to a toxic nostalgia. Text and visual art collide to articulate a methodology for an embodied historiography that neutralizes the dangers of nostalgia, while effectively liberating the past. It features original artwork by Ify Chiejina, Hannah Cook, Rejin Leys, and Daphne Silbiger. Rag and Bone Aesthetics was printed in an edition of 115.
This project was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.