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Proposal for a Body Reading List
February 23 2024, by Brooke Pou
Proposal for a Body posits that sound and text-matter are mediums that can be regarded as inherently queer in their expansive and corporally liminal states. Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett draw on the music and writing of artists Loren Connors and Kim Gordon to communicate through sound and poetry abstract-experience; what is inexplicable.
Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett photographed during their opening night performance. Courtesy of Cheska Brown.
Francesco Spampinato, Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2015.
Spanning 1980 to 2015, this publication surveys 25 different record labels that were founded and run by visual artists. Spampinato reflects on how these spaces and the people within them contribute to redefining the role of the contemporary artist in our modern art world.
Kim Gordon, Is It My Body? London: Sternberg Press, 2014.
Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson, This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music. New York: Hachette Books, 2022.
This book features an array of writers who challenge male dominance and sexism in the music scene. Essays about those who are seen as pioneers in their craft offer new ways of thinking about the spectrum of women in music.
Noel Meek, archive fever: new zealand underground sound in fanzine interviews 1991—1999. Oslo: Marhaug Forlag, 2023.
In archive fever, Noel Meek uncovers interviews, artwork and texts of underground Aotearoa sound artists in the ‘90s.
Robert Leonard and Julian Dashper, Julian Dashper & Friends. Wellington: 2015.
As a publication for the City Gallery exhibition of the same name, this book is a tribute to the artist whose influence is still felt in the work of others today.
Thomas S. Caw, “Gender Trouble: the disruptive work of Kim Gordon.” Master thesis (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2005).