We Come With Many Stories
Writers:
Chris Cochrane
Excel Garay
Bronwyn McGuiness
Calendula Sack
Brody Weaver
Curator, Editor, and Publication Design:
Brody Weaver
Perfect bound
Cover: 5” x 4”
Spread: 10” x 8”
Edition of 200
"What follows is a reproduction of our performance script, edited like a stage play to bring some performative elements to the written word. Alongside this is photographic documentation of the performance, which took place at the Khyber on November 19th, 2023. Thank you Chris, Excel, Bronwyn and Calendula for your trust and willingness to see this through, from my invitation to the stage and finally, to these pages."
The original performance of We Come With Many Stores took place at the Khyber in an event series called Let It Out, curated by Jean Mary Serutoke and Saba Blyden-Taylor.
The original performance of We Come With Many Stores took place at the Khyber in an event series called Let It Out, curated by Jean Mary Serutoke and Saba Blyden-Taylor.
Taking to Strangers
Perfect bound magazineCover: 8.5” x 11”
Spread: 11” x 17”
This publication presents documentation of a digital performance in which the artist subjected their genderqueer expression to the world wide web on the chat roulette website Omegle. Screen recorded visuals sifting through historical publications on homophobia move into family photographs before moving to the open web. A cast of strangers react to their appearence with disgust, fascination, and fetishization.
Whispers from the Web
Perfect bound magazineCover: 8.5” x 11”
Spread: 11” x 17”
whispers from the web is a series of found jpegs, encountered using controlled search terms. Googling select queer identities with the emotions ‘sad’ or ‘happy’ delivered these images. The first result was saved. Superficial. In this process, Google, one of the largest search engines on the planet, was slowed down and it’s endless feed made static. With results moving fluidly between photographs of people, objects, and memes, the work makes visible what identities, bodies, and behaviours have digital coherence and traces those which become largely illegible.
A Public Is a Relation Amongst Strangers
Perfect bound magazineCover: 8.5” x 11”
Spread: 11” x 17”
a public is a relation amongst strangers explores digital intimacy through the personal space of the desktop and open-face, hyper visible networks of online camming sites and chat forums. Documenting a performance which occurred in the private space of a single desktop and an absurd camming session with only one live viewer, screen recording moves disjointedly through typed meditations on the relationship between the body and technology, intimate space and network culture, emotional connection and distance to viewings of found jpegs and gifs, and ultimately ventures into the web. when i am online, where am i? i am here, at my desktop, typing this? if i upload this, will i be where the file goes? am i the person in the chair in front of an interface? am i the avatar in a social networking site interacting with somebody else? am i a set of data running through the atmosphere?
Hello
Brody Weaver and anonymous participantSaddle stitched zine
8.5” x 5.5” (cover)
8.5” x 11 “ (spread)
Produced with an anonymous collaborator met on Grindr, this work features the transcription of their conversation. Questions aksed were similar to that of a first date. After transcription, the interviewee had full power in deciding what would be made public and what would be redacted.