east window SOUTH
Perfect Bound, 90 pages, 6” x 9”
Publication Date: 7 June 2022

Introduction by Todd Edward Hermann

A collaged excerpt from my new book disgust is included DISGUST: unhealthy practices. This gorgeous publication documents work by artists featured the self-titled group exhibit at east window SOUTH, curated by Todd Edward Hermann.

In the Introduction, Hermann writes, “The images and texts which comprise this publication explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grapple with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups…

What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions?”

Featuring work by
Frances Bukovsky, CAConrad, Max Davies, Todd Edward Hermann, Sabetty Heyaime, Jade Lascelles, Jennifer Lorenne, Melanie MacKinnon, Megan Morgan, Toni Oswald, Julie Puma, Benjamin Robinson, Juliana Spahr, Sarah Elizabeth Shantz, Eric Shoemaker, Selby Sohn, Emji Saint Spero, and more…