ADRIAN PIPER
Procedure, Intimate Inquiry, Archives
Adrian Piper seeks to establish her position in the face of her marginalized identity by developing her work as a kind of broader informational, archival project
Amodern 11 · October 2023
BODY AND/AS PROCEDURE
In This Issue
ASSIMILATING THE ARTS
On Poetry and Difference in Yoko Ono'sGrapefruit
Yoko Ono’s midcentury instructions offer a response to changing labor practices and renewed forms of racial capitalism after World War II.
ONO OPTICS
Toward a Theory of the Perfectly Unreadable
Yoko Ono was a primary innovator of the event score, a mainstay of procedural poetry from the 1960s and 1970s.
POETIC DIANOIA
Epistemic Injustice and CA Conrad’s (Soma)tics
This essay thinks the confluence of two concepts, epistemic injustice and poetic dictation, in the work of CA Conrad.
QUIPU PROCEDURE
This piece is a textual quipu.
SHE RIPPLES HAPPILY
Coding Hormone Care in Porpentine Charity Heartscape’sWith Those We Love Alive
This article extends this understanding of hormones as communicative agents to variables in computer code.
SPELL AND SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES
Dreams as Procedure in Lyn Hejinian and Jackie Wang’s Poetry
This essay turns to two contemporary poetic texts, Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes and Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void.
THE DANGER OF THE SITUATION
or, The Indexical Present of Apology in the Performance Artwork of Adrian Piper and Dr. Vaginal Davis
This paper traces how the procedural contours of the genre of the apology serve the socially critical and investigative projects of two performance artists who use apologies to navigate, resist, and make politically productive their experiences of being interpolated into white discomfort.
WORLDS WITHOUT AN I
Bernadette Mayer’s Procedural Lyric
This essay contends that the site-specific procedural texts of Bernadette Mayer constrain and animate the expressive and cognitive textures of the speaking I.