Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration. SF Camerawork

Justine Kurland

SFCamerawork

In this meditation on cosmic themes of purification and desire, writer Jonathan Raymond describes a hike by two old friends to remote hot springs in the foothills of the Cascade mountain range. As the hours progress, and the landscape evolves, and Kurt and Mark enact a pilgrimage of consciousness replete with mystical insights, wonderment, and intimations of subtle spiritual battle. Which path is the truly enlightened? What perception is the truly devout? How does one live in a fallen world? Coupled with recent work by Justine Kurland--sumptuous color photographs of burned forests, bearded men and naked visionaries in wilderness tableaux--Old Joy's story of sacrificial transcendence spirals toward an inevitable, violent consummation.

Old Joy: Fiction by Jonathan Raymond & Photographs by Justine Kurland

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan Raymond

Literary

Artspace Books

Inspired by Valerie Solanas' iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland's own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men's Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage - heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy - has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland's earlier photographic projects Girl Pictures (1997-2002) and Mama Babies (2004-07). Each work in SCUMB sounds an electrifying call for freedom - the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world. Includes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.

SCUMB Manifesto

MACK BOOKS

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Books by Justine Kurland