SSENSE contributor and DIS co-founder Solomon Chase talks to Juliana Huxtable about fashion ideology as a way of unpacking political and symbolic history.
“Juliana Huxtable is a spry demigoddess who writes (and thinks) in ALL CAPS. A New York–based artist, writer, performer, DJ, and founder of the party Shock Value, Huxtable’s writing and artwork is laden with complex signifiers and cultural symbolism. The notion of reading figures into everything, generating formats with which to decipher the world around us through her glittering perspective. This process of excavation probes everything from her personal life to the politics of dress and counter-cultural aesthetics. Mucus in My Pineal Gland, the first collection of Huxtable’s poems essays and performance scripts was published earlier this year, in addition to an apocalyptic novella, LIFE, in collaboration with artist Hannah Black, marking a critical momentum in her hurricane of a career. The year has also seen major new bodies of work with A Split During Laughter at the Rally at the New York gallery Reena Spaulings and a self-titled show at London’s Project Native Informant.”
Juliana Huxtable presents the world premiere of Triptych, a new commissionedperformance for electronics, voice, harp, drums and video, at Rewire 2018. Learn more about her Rewire 2018 performance at Juliana Huxtable.
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