Books
forthcoming: The essay "Outsmarting the City—How Queer Subcultures in Queensborough" will be included in The Physical and the Digital City, Invisible Forces, Data and Manifestations published by Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2024
Queering the Collection published by Genderfail, New York City, 2019
co-Editor, and four interviews with Emily Dunne, Chris Clary, Be Oakley, the Wrrq Collective
When I think about how intersectionality functions through photograph —not alongside it, in the bumpy sidecar—I see that mode of analysis in individual titles that are present in this and other libraries, but people don’t consider them in that way. Gordon Parks comes to mind, but I would also widen that scope to include a book few people ever talk about anymore but seems relevant in the Brexit/Trump age: Ray’s A Laugh by Richard Billingham. The first print run of Ray’s a Laugh was marked by the heaviness of a problematic edit, but the visual story shows a white family marked by poverty, alcoholism, mental health, public housing, and how each of those factors added up to guarantee class oppression. Billingham’s book shows an interconnectedness of conditions that dominant white culture doesn’t ever want to own up to because it disturbs the monolithic institution of whiteness. An unbearable stain on whiteness.
"Joven y trabajando” Al camello camello y al amor amor Published by New Poetics of Labor, Medellín, Colombia, 2018
"Sightlines" Emerging Artists Grants 2016 Published by The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, USA, 2018
For artists, the pleasure, fulfilment, and/or urgency of making work is often up against an incendiary parade of daily political collisions. What constitutes a social emergency and how should art respond? ...“The ‘revolutionary consciousness’ is a mystification if it is not situated within a ‘revolutionary body,’ that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation.”
The critical engagement we find ourselves needing most as a global culture of creative labor is hinging, swaying, on the quality of dignity and integrity we can bring forward. If multiple liberations are at stake, then we must identify what art can afford that economic models do not provide. And so, what can art repair? What will art restore, and to whom?
Carolee's Issue 2 Published by the Artist Institute, Koenig Books, 2014
A zesty personal co-written with Sofia Varino
“The Process and Pleasure of Collecting: A Noninstitutional Approach” Memories Can’t Wait: Conversations on Accessing History and Archives Through Artistic Practices Published by The International Center of Photography, USA, 2013
Interviews with Rita Barros, Cassandra Langer, Michael Pinto, Liz Sales, Andres Serrano
