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Bridge Journal Feature
Avant-Garde Artist’s Publications In Historical Context
By Michael Workman
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Bridge Featured Film: “Zoonomia”
Zoonomia represents an imaginative investigation into how things might have evolved if events had followed a slightly different trajectory, allowing for hybrids of existing organisms, the return of extinct species and unpredictable motivations, interactions and outcomes. Runtime: 7 minutes, 10 seconds
Bridge Books Feature
MY EYES, YOUR GAZE
By Darya Foroohar
A BRIDGE BOOKS Graphic Novel Serialization (click image to open)
Darya is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago studying creative writing and urban studies. She has self-published two graphic novels, Somewhere Far From Here (2022) and I Wish I Didn't Think About This (2021). She is the recipient of the 2022 Seidel Scholars Grant, which funded her self-directed adaptation of the Persian myth the Shahnameh into a graphic novel. In addition to working on this, she is working on her creative writing thesis this year, as well as personal comic projects and commissions. Outside of writing, Darya likes to make music, do the NYT crossword, and take long, long walks.
Every Thursday throughout our Fall 2023 (Sept - Dec) and Spring 2024 seasons, Bridge is serializing Darya Foroohar’s "My Eyes, Your Gaze" in this flip-book and through our social media sites, culminating in publication of the full graphic novel in summer 2024.
From the theories of urbanist Georg Simmel to the bars of rapper Megan Thee Stallion, there has been no dearth of work exploring how cultural expectations of physical presentation have shaped people’s relationships to both their bodies and those around them. My Eyes, Your Gaze is a graphic essay on the cultural perception and conception of the body, especially as it relates to gender and sexuality. Using her own experiences as a thread tying the piece together, Foroohar engages with both queer, anticolonial, and feminist theory in addition to modern pop culture to explore the ways in which the concept of the physical body is intertwined with the legacies of colonialism, misogyny, and queerphobia. The work started out as a personal project but grew more academic as I began to connect the readings in my UChicago classes to the issues of self-perception and presentation I was thinking about privately. It became the final project for my global queer and feminist aesthetics class, which pushed me to investigate non-western perspectives on the body and its cultural conception, turning the work from a pet project into something much bigger than myself. Ultimately, My Eyes, Your Gaze is an exploration not only of the societal constraints on the body, but on the in which people have taken back possession of their bodies and their sense of self.
Bridge Archive Dive
Image of the Bridge website from the late 1990’s, built using Flash player media. Design by Marie Walz.
Bridge Books strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and fostering new futures for cultural production within and outside of museums.
​Fwd: Museums Journal is produced and edited by students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Its home is UIC's Museum and Exhibition Studies Program and it is published by Chicago-based StepSister Press, an imprint of Bridge Books.
Imprints & Affiliates
StepSister Press, an independent publishing company founded by Annie Heckman in 2007 to promote conversation on emerging art, literature, educational, and critical theory projects, became an imprint of Bridge Books in 2022. Originally based in Chicago, and now based nearby in Park Ridge, Illinois, the press coordinates projects and collaborations with artists and writers around the world. Click on the image above to visit the StepSister site.
Hurm Editions seeks to fill a void in the current international publishing landscape. In a culture increasingly sanitized by the infringements on art of corporate norms as community standards, that helps fosters a culture of mass shootings by refusing to depict the aftermaths of our national obsession with gun violence, and that claims to celebrate sexual identity while outlawing any depictions whatsoever of sex or eroticism, Hurm Editions seeks to support work that challenges convention, pushes boundaries, and that revels in the grotesque, incoherent, offensive and obscene.
Launched in 2014, the Bridge Chicago Art Community Facebook Group has grown to nearly 5,000 members and counting.
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