how to build a _____ . bench press series

bench press

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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

 

bench press
(Ravenswood)

bench press is a risograph press based on friendship, play & collaboration. books are remnants of generative conversations & mutual exchange between artist + publisher.

focusing on collaborative projects and interactive guides + workbooks, bench press often partners with artists & friends who are new to the book as form, utilizing the risograph as tool for skill sharing and creating publications as a way to connect directly with the reader while advocating for open access to knowledge & resources.

bench press is from Chicago, IL & run by Madeleine Aguilar.