GenderFail

GenderFail is a publishing and programming initiative created by Be Oakley[1] that seeks to encourage projects from an intersectional, queer perspective.[2] Many projects are tied together by the slogan “Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance.”[3][4] The press is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY.[5]

Exhibitions and events

GenderFail has been a part of exhibitions, programs and events at A.I.R. Gallery[6], MoMA PS1 (Long Island City)[7], The International Center of Photography (NYC)[8], Wendy's Subway (Brooklyn)[9], Sediment Arts (Richmond)[10][11], Vox Populi (Philadelphia), EFA Project Space (NYC), The Contemporary Artists' Books Conference at Book Culture (Long Island City)[12], Washington Center for the Arts (Washington DC), Ulises Books (Philadelphia), Anderson Gallery (Richmond), and After School Special (Milwaukee).[13][12][14]

Publishing projects

GenderFail's publications "uses appropriation as a strategy to “pervert” the canon, contaminate it, but also to give visibility to under-represented and othered forms of being."[15]

In October 2018, GenderFail released An Anthology of Failure, which includes essays by Manuel Arturo Abreu, American Artist, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Demian Dinéyazhi', Johanna Hedva, Nicole Killian, Andrea Liu, Be Oakley, Nate Pyper, Sable Elyse Smith, Alok Vaid-Menon and Agustine Zegers. Printed Matter has dedicated a shelf in their bookshop to displaying Genderfail titles.[16] Some of GenderFail's projects take on a digital form, such as Remember Their Name, a page memorializing every trans person who was murdered since 2016.[17]

In 2019 they published Consciousness by artist Lex Brown.[18] Their book GenderFail Reader 1, was named one of OutTv 19 best reads of 2019.[19]

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References
  1. "A Preview of Printed Matter's Annual NY Art Book Fair, Featuring 73 First-Time Exhibitors". Hyperallergic. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  2. https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/invisible-connections-of-feminism/
  3. https://cornellsun.com/2019/03/03/the-dangers-of-binaries/
  4. "The Queer Zine Library in Hong Kong That's Finding a Global Community". Eye on Design. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  5. clark, CNT Editors,colin. "Our Favorite New Yorkers on the Best Things in All Five Boroughs". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. https://hyperallergic.com/535690/brooklyns-a-i-r-gallery-to-launch-its-first-feminist-and-queer-art-book-fair/
  7. "Past and Future Fictions - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  8. "ICP Lab: Queering the Collection". International Center of Photography. 22 March 2018.
  9. "Wendy's Subway / Residency / GenderFail". www.wendyssubway.com.
  10. "Panel displays perspectives on Richmond publishing projects – The Commonwealth Times". commonwealthtimes.org.
  11. "GenderFail's Exhibition at Sediment Arts Brings Needed Focus to Trans and Queer Art". gayrva.com.
  12. "Programs - NY Art Book Fair Presented By Printed Matter". nyartbookfair.com.
  13. "GenderFail Presents: Queer Date - After School Special". afterschoolspecial.info.
  14. "GenderFail". SEDIMENT.
  15. "Copy This Table - A Table by Printed Matter". Printed Matter. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  16. https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/artonic/Printed-Matter
  17. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gorgeous-lgbtq-photography-at-the-ny-art-book-fair
  18. Doran, Kerry; Doran, Kerry (2019-08-07). "Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  19. "OUTtv's 19 Best Reads of 2019". OUTtv. 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
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