You are invited to the launch of Significant Others by frank r jagoe, winner of the 2024 Prototype Prize.
with
Remi Graves
Erin Holly
frank r jagoe
Allie Oliver
EK Myerson
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Daniella Valz Gen
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO BAR BUT YOU ARE WELCOME TO BYOB.
‘Significant Others is a fully grown and highly original manuscript. It is a remarkable and beautiful piece of writing which forges a new language of material aesthetics to think and write beyond the human. There is a fluency and elasticity of invention here, resonating with the processes of artistic creation and encounter. Exciting, passionate and surprising.’
– Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price, judges of the 2024 Prototype Prize
[…] she perceived of herself as a liquid and all of her efforts were, in the end, directed only at containing herself.
Ferrante, Elena The Story of the Lost Child
-the gendering of liquidity
-anorexia and abjection
-queer desire and excess
-mostly the gendering of liquidity
Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder.
Clarice Lispector, The Departure of the Train
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Now, encountering the female ‘I’, especially one wielded by a female author, readers brace for emotional incontinence.
Olivia Sudjic, Exposure
The Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme