Artists at Work: Emily Floyd and Esther Hovers

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For Artists at Work, Emily Floyd will launch her new print edition Female Orgasm: a codex of sorts, after Ursula K Le Guin, a typographic response to Le Guin’s invented Kesh language and the term BANHE, meaning “acceptance, inclusion, insight, understanding; female orgasm. To include; to comprehend; to have orgasm (female).” The project belongs to a group of works by Floyd that retrieve Le Guin’s language from an indefinitely deferred future, activating its revolutionary desire in the present. This edition is a collaboration with Experimental Jetset and is produced by Negative Press, with a text supplement by Anneke Jaspers.

Esther Hovers will speak about her photographic practice, as well as her work in progress entitled The Traveling Salesman. She will share her process for this project, which she has developed during her residency at ISCP.

This program is supported, in part, by, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg, Hartfield Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund.