These references allows Huxtable to provide relief from tension in the work. 152 x 206mm, 188 pages, Single colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Ed. MUCUS IN MY PINEAL GLAND by Juliana Huxtable. First published May 1, 2017. Juliana Huxtable is a New York City-based writer, performer, and artist. WHO ARE THE MODERN ASCETICS? She is a dear friend and fellow trans latinx poet whose work I've come to admire dearly. She is a black trans DJ, model, fashionista, artist, poet. 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.
I assume the formatting change was the authors choice: it feels as if Huxtable looked at the pages, threw out all the rules, and said, "What format and presentation will best fit the content and aesthetics of my book? " How do we get outside of that symbolically? Here, the book becomes a visual arts project, with a unique design. Poetry appears lately in The Chicago Review, Fence, Elderly and Eleven Eleven. MUCUS IN MY PINEAL GLAND. She recently published a novel, Life, co-written with the artist and writer Hannah Black. 188 pages, Paperback. Printed Matter's online catalog is one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of artists' books and related publications. Her studiomate's phone rings, and I am now to meet her at her apartment a short ride away. Publisher: Capricious LLC. 12174 items from 4691 publishers, 8891 artists... Constanza Valenzuela.
ISBN: 9780997444629, 9780997444629. Paperback: 188 pages. A pair of nude booties with lucite heels are overturned on the floor, the calendar is still January, empty bottles cover each surface--mainly water, some seltzers, a kombucha and wine. It is angry and rightfully so. Her project from A Book of Poems on Beauty won the Gazing Grain award. IF HISTORY WAS ROBBED, WE TAKE IT BACK BY PEELING AWAY AT LAYERS OF WIKIPEDIA DEBATES (SUBJECT LINE) RE: AUTHENTICITY. 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. Mucus in My Pineal Gland (English, Paperback, Huxtable Juliana). Sezgin Boynik, Taneli Viitahuhta, Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon. There is often an urgency and a demanding to be heard. Sex becomes a way to discuss power dynamics between individuals and also a way to discuss the possibility of existing in authenticity. Available at St Marks. About the BookPoetry.
Hypertext realness or some shit. The sticky web of these things all together. Throughout Mucus in my Pineal Gland, Huxtable's characters plumb digital underworlds searching for freedom, sometimes finding fetishization instead. I asked her, "Do you think this is a subconscious trans femme of color literary aesthetic that is developing? He is the author of Mature Themes (Nightboat 2014) and the forthcoming novel MacArthur Park (Nightboat 2017). This utter refusal of variation in tone, bleeding between "real life" and art, between various poetic speakers, without regard for traditional boundaries, is for me the very best example of our hunger for connection and our hatred of timid compromise. Capricious & Wonder. Cat meme zine for my bff christinaBooks. Her characters are not ciphers, which she reminds you through her writing. Huxtable's recent book, Mucus in My Pineal Gland, takes on media's constituting powers in our desires. Maybe so, but she says she finds "most of the conversations around transness generally to be really problematic, and kind of late. " More of an art book than a book of poetry, Huxtable's book focuses on the body, sexuality, and the internet. Big Saving Days Sale Starts in.
Accoutrements enhance the form, while covering scars. 7:30pm, reading starts promptly at 8pm. "I got really obsessed with the idea of mucus when I was in school, " Huxtable says, citing it as the "the most genderless bodily form. Recent exhibitions and performances include: The Grand Dold Projects Art Gala at Villa Junghans, Villingen, Germany; There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Take Ecstasy with Me at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Free Jazz Communism (new edition)Books. Friends & Following. Underneath, we are fluids. Number of Pages: 188. JHU:: Review of 'Mucus in My Pineal Gland' by Juliana Huxtable, Lambda Literary, November 2017. made with LayGridder. Mucus in My Pineal Gland was co-published in 2017 by Capricious and Wonder. I read it all fast on a beach trip and was like whoa.
She's "more comfortable" with the designations poet and artist now than she was in the past. Who tf was saying HAM before that? On the grief process of bygone eras Huxtable says, "I don't like nostalgia, I think it's kind of toxic. Juliana Huxtable grew up in Texas and then took the New York City nightlife scene by storm. Juliana Huxtable's collection does not follow the typical formatting of a poetry book, with black ink on white pages, and the poems' titles at the top of the page. It's all about void matter, void feminine/masculine matter. There is an obsession in this book about what is authentic and what is fake. These references allow the book to flow seamlessly without being overbearing rhetorically or politically. After her studies at Bard College, she says she "got a lot of really crass readings that couldn't separate what was happening in the work from a reductive reading of who I was as a person. 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. Bulevardi "Nëna Terezë", 87.
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. " PM Fundraising Editions. Video, sound work, and text pieces have exhibited at the Visible Verse Festival, Krowswork, Southern Exposure, and in Gauss PDF. Her work may concern itself with avatars, but her life concerns itself with us never being able to make her into one.
It is as if the poet is saying I'm here, I'm alive and you need to listen to what I'm saying. Design by Riley Hooker. 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. 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. She clarifies, "There was never a point at which I was like, 'I am living in the world as a boy and now I'm living in the world as a girl. ' Softcover, perfect-bound, blue & white. I was really obsessed with her writing. There is very little that Juliana doesn't do. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and will definitely re-read it. Besides, she laughs, "Everyone I know is having a great time. Elsewhere in the gallery is an untitled wall diagram, recalling her home newspaper wall: "BLACK STYLE THE RAGE FOR WHITES" and "PERFECT OPPORTUNITY 4 WESTERN POWERS 2 DESTROY BLACK SYMBOLIC ORIGINS. " Social Science Books. These poems and performance texts memorialize the internet in loud clanking blue letters, they time stamp the ephemerality of screen text.
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