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
As a human body, I am somewhat organised, with seemingly discrete borders and boundaries. My skin gives the illusion of a hermetic seal that keeps my intricate plumbing mostly from view, this body appears to me as whole, separate, and organised. But my body of water also breaches the skin sac – regularly, imperceptibly, and also in periodic and demonstrative gushes.
Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water
For, we reflected, what if the entire intrauterine existence of the higher mammals were only a replica of the type of existence which characterised that aboriginal piscine period, and birth itself nothing but a recapitulation on the part of the individual of the great catastrophe which at the time of the recession of the ocean forced so many animals, and certainly our own animal ancestors, to adapt themselves to a land existence, above all to renounce gill-breathing and provide themselves with organs for the respiration of air?
-Sandor Ferenczi, Thalassa Or, A Theory of Genitality
“The ocean,” she said, “is a big lez. I can tell.”
“But not one of history,” I said.
“No,” she agreed. “Of space and time.”
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties