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Johanna Hedva
JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE OF THE BRAIN, will be published in September 2020. Their essay, ‘Sick Woman Theory,’ published in MASK in 2016, has been translated into six languages, and their writing has appeared in TRIPLE CANOPY, FRIEZE, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, and ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Their album, THE SUN AND THE MOON, was released in March 2019, and they’re currently touring BLACK MOON LILITH IN PISCES IN THE 4TH HOUSE, a doom metal guitar and voice performance influenced by Korean shamanist ritual. Their novel, YOUR LOVE IS NO GOOD is out in May 2023 from And Other Stories.  

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‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck

Essay

Issue No. 27

Johanna Hedva

Essay

Issue No. 27

‘We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say “I”. This is what we must yield up to God.’ — Simone...

Book Review

October 2019

She, Etcetera

Johanna Hedva

Book Review

October 2019

Every brainy queer of my generation, especially those born under the sign of Saturn, went through a phase where...

Sophie Calle is France’s most celebrated conceptual artist Her highly autobiographical, multi-disciplinary work combines the confessional and the cerebral, and is typified by the imposition of often bizarre rules and schemes upon her everyday existence Her work – realised in photography and film, writing, performances and installations – is simultaneously emotionally wrought and clinically detached, inducing in its audience a furtive sense of voyeurism and intrusion   Calle has claimed that she did not initially conceive of her practice as art, and that she only came to present herself as an artist in her mid-twenties to ‘seduce’ her father, a noted collector For ‘The Sleepers’ (1979) she invited people to sleep in her bed for eight hours while she observed them, later combining the photographs with her own writing and snippets from interviews with the subjects In the same year she met a man at a party and determined to follow him to Venice Having phoned scores of hotels to find out where ‘Henri B’ was staying, she persuaded the woman who lived across from his room to allow her to covertly photograph his comings and goings, all the while disguised in a blonde wig and make up Her notes on this ‘Suite Vénitienne’ were later published alongside an essay entitled ‘Please follow me’ (1988) by her friend Jean Baudrillard He rejects the notion that Calle was compelled by the desire to foster any kind of connection with her subject, or to engineer a satisfying resolution to a chance encounter: ‘Nothing was to happen, not one event that might establish any contact or relationship between them This is the price of seduction The secret must not be broken, at the risk of the story’s falling into banality’   The artist’s enigmatic commingling of fact and fiction, her introduction of narrative structure into the chaos of lived experience, has long fascinating writers and theorists Paul Auster wrote her into his 1992 novel Leviathan as the character Maris, whose ‘work was too nutty, too idiosyncratic, too personal to be thought of as belonging to any particular medium or discipline… {Her} activity didn’t stem from a

Contributor

March 2018

Johanna Hedva

Contributor

March 2018

JOHANNA HEDVA is the author of the novel, ON HELL. Their collection of poems and essays, MINERVA THE MISCARRIAGE...

Jonah

Fiction

Issue No. 21

Johanna Hedva

Fiction

Issue No. 21

After The Eliza Battle, I went to Berlin to recuperate, to nurse my pride. I had been there many times at that point, since...

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fiction

Issue No. 17

Harmless Like You

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

fiction

Issue No. 17

Interstate 95, September 2016   Celeste sat on the front seat wearing her black turtleneck sweater. She had three...

poetry

Issue No. 17

Winter Diary

Galina Rymbu

TR. Joan Brooks

poetry

Issue No. 17

who bravely blasts their breath through the horn flares of gloomy streets, into dripping construction trailers, dropped by the...

Prize Entry

April 2017

Abu One-Eye

Rav Grewal-Kök

Prize Entry

April 2017

He left two photographs.   In the first, his eldest brother balances him on a knee. It must be...

 

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