how to build a ____ . is a series of artists' responses to organizing a creative practice in 20 steps.
bex ya yolk is a transdisciplinary visual artist, book maker, researcher, and adjunct professor based in Chicago, IL. yolk is the founder of an artists’ book bindery + publishing initiative––THUNGRY which focuses on disrupting what we’ve come to understand qualifies a Book, complicating traditional ways of book building + semantics through experimentation and queering praxis. THUNGRY explores historical research, sociology, and speculative theory into 'the Maternal Complex' made up of subgenres like care work, reproductive design, rematriation, container technologies, abortion access activism, reproductive justice and health care disparity in the U.S, the maternal identity, matrescence, and the gestational state especially in queer folx exploring the intersectionalities between the Book + this kind of body.
Dimensions: 8.5 x 7"
Materials: Risograph
THUNGRY
(Ravenswood)
THUNGRY exists as a publishing initiative and artists’ book bindery complicating traditional ways of book building and semantics through experimentation + queering praxis. Through extensive, generative research into subgenres like care work, reproductive design, abortion access activism, reproductive justice, health care disparities, and container technics– THUNGRY explores the intersectionalities between the Book + the bodies this scholarship pertains.