Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Edited by Johanna Burton, Natalie Bell. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Johanna Burton, Rizvana Bradley, Mel Y. Chen, Jeannine Tang, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Contributions by Lia Gangitano, Ariel Goldberg, Jack Halberstam, Fred Moten, Sara O'Keeffe, Eric Stanley, Kate Wiener.

Published in accompaniment to the New Museum’s exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” this catalogue investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition featured over 40 artists working across a variety of mediums and genres, including film, video, performance, painting and sculpture. Many embraced explicit pleasure and visual lushness as political strategies, and some deliberately rejected or complicated overt representation, turning to poetic language, docufiction and abstraction to affirm ambiguities and reflect shifting physical embodiment. 
 
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.
2017
400 pages; hardcover; 120 color illustrations, 30 black and white illustrations
New York; New Museum
ISBN: 9780915557165