Consciousness: 2011-2019

Lex Brown

• Title

  Consciousness: 2011-2019

• Date 2019
• Publisher Brooklyn, NY: GenderFail
• Description 140 p; 9.9 in; color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  Consciousness is the first survey of Lex Brown’s expansive practice in video and performance. Spanning eight years and 47 works, this book includes never-before-seen photos and lyrics from her humorous, allegorical, and sobering compositions. GenderFail is a publishing a programming initiative that seeks to encourage projects that foster an intersectional queer subjectivity. For GenderFail, a queer subjectivity is one that pushes against a capitalist, racist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynist, and anti-environmental ideology. Their projects look at various forms of failure—from personal, public, and political perspectives—as a boundless form of creative potential. GenderFail is fueled by the messiness of collaboration, education, and community to push their goals of failing forward.
  Edition Note: Ed. of 250

• Tags American poetry -- 21st century, Gender studies, African American poetry, Artist’s book