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Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Working Girl

On Selling Art and Selling Sex
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2025
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-83976-671-8 (ISBN)
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An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice
Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built on the commodification of creativity and desire, authenticity and intimacy. Our reaction to this should not be moral or political outrage, nor legal regulation or denial, but rather-as Sophia Giovannitti argues here-acceptance, through which we can find a more autonomous way to live.

In this searching and provocative work, drawing on cultural and political theory, the contemporary art world, and the author's own experience as a sex worker and artist trying to make a living, Giovannitti argues that if we delve into our anxieties around art and sex, we can instead find new ways to live and spaces, however small, of freedom. When there is nothing left to protect, she argues, everything is possible.

Sophia Giovannitti is a writer and artist based in New York. She has written on sex work and other topics for The New Inquiry, Document Journal, n+1, Jezebel, Vice, Bookforum, and SSENSE, among others. Through her ongoing series of performance-based studies, beginning with Untitled (Incall), a solo residency at Recess in Brooklyn from May-June 2021, and continuing with Incall: Study 2; Contract, a solo show at Duplex in New York, from March-April 2022, she seeks to trouble and re-choreograph the flow of capital through the art and sex industries. Her first short film, produced by Tourmaline, In Heaven: An Alternate Reality Game, premiered at the Athens Biennale in September 2021; her second short film, Dirty Calculations, premiered on the Cryptographic.Art platform in December 2021.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.10.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
ISBN-10 1-83976-671-9 / 1839766719
ISBN-13 978-1-83976-671-8 / 9781839766718
Zustand Neuware
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