Urgency Reader [electronic resource].

Queer.Archive.Work Paul Soulellis 2019

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Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included ⊹urgency, ⊹craft ⊹queerness ⊹gender ⊹transformation ⊹kinship ⊹race ⊹survival ⊹post-apocalyptic practice ⊹futurity ⊹pedagogy ⊹surveillance capitalism ⊹death of capital ⊹radical publishing ⊹decolonization ⊹augmentation ⊹resistance ⊹sci-fi ⊹collective care ⊹joy Inspired by Omnibus News #1 (1969), Assembling (1970–87), and other assembling publications, Urgency Reader is an experiment in publishing as a gesture of call and response: the quick circulation of a charged collection of texts—in some cases raw, in-progress, or sketchy—to a small but deeply engaged audience. As the poet Karl Young wrote in his forward to Assembling #12, such publications “can be read as chance-generated collages, and as spontaneous pieces of printed performance art.” A total of eighty contributors far and wide sent 467 pages of work in just under two weeks, signaling a need to publish urgently, but less preciously, on non-corporate platforms. I used my stapler’s maximum capacity to determine the page count (126 sheets + cover bound with 5/8 inch staples). The goal of the edit was to be as inclusive as possible, at times asking contributors to compact their submissions in order to free up space for others. The order of the texts as they appear in the book was determined by chance by assigning a series of random integers from random.org to the alphabetical list of contributors.  
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Artists
Artists' writings
Publishers and publishing
Sexual minority culture

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Paul Soulellis
Nicole Killian
Rey Carlson
Kenneth Reveiz
Joseph Imhauser
Helen Taranowski
Lauren McCarthy
LaTefy Dolley
Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Anna Barlow
Ant Lobo
Zach Deocadiz
Chris Cote
Juliana Castro
Jerome Harris
Will Kuria
Max Evans
Ritu Ghiya
Lukas Eigler-Harding
Genevieve Flavelle
Nikki Juen
Jason Lipeles
Kirslyn Schell-Smith
Sal Randolph
Anna Stein
Elaine Lopez
Rodrigo Moreira
Darian Razdar
June T. Sanders
Rachel Atakpa
Travess Smalley
Eliza Chen
Daedalus Li
Emma Rae Norton
Lauren Traugott-Campbell
Nicolas Baird
Nènè Myriam Konaté
Bobby Joe Smith III
Luiza Dale
Tiger Dingsun
Mena Kamel
Elite Kedan
Kelsey Elder
Rin Kim
Somnath Bhatt
Vuthy Lay
Kitt Peacock
Leon Butler
Be Oakley
Noah LeBien
Christopher Clary
Kelsey Dusenka
Kelsey Sucena
Celia Shaheen
American Artist
Sara Kaaman
Madeline Zappala
Sam M-h
Cassandra Hradil
Nic Wilson
Olive B. Godlee
Marisa Fulper Estrada
Matthew Altman
Emma Kemp
Noa Machover
Trevor Bashaw
Zack Wilks
Loizos Olympios
Ramon Tejada