Fall 2013 Fall 2013 Volume 11 · Number 2 11 · Number Volume Volume 11 · Number 2 · Fall 2013 · ISSN: 1559-4963 editor in chief Elizabeth Crawford editorial director Rodrigo Ferreira art editor Madalyn Lucier !ction editor Claire Grandy non!ction editor Jason Didier poetry editor Hannah Jocelyn assistant editors Dipti Anand Anna Lyon Anamesa is a conversation. From its inception in 2003, the journal has sought to pro- Antonio Baiz Caitlin McKenna vide an occasion for graduate students in disparate #elds to converge upon and debate Jennifer L. Clark Brianna Meeks issues emblematic of the human condition. In doing so, Anamesa provokes scholarly, Katrina Kass Hope Morrill literary, and artistic innovation through interdisciplinary dialogue, serving New York Elizavetta Koemets Catherine Mros University’s John W. Draper Program and the graduate community at large. Naomi Kurtz Jana Pickart Christopher Labrot Anna Reumert Camille La!eur Jehan Roberson Kamsen Lau "eresa Stanley web editor Jana Pickart graphic designer Joshua Stein design consultant "eresa D’Andrea Logo and layout design, 2012 by !eresa D’Andrea Special thanks to Lauren Benton, Robin Nagle, and Robert Dimit for their continued support; to Georgia Lowe and Maggie Langlinais for their invaluable assistance. Anamesa is a biannual journal funded by the following entities of New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social !ought, and the O"ce of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. anamesajournal.wordpress.com [email protected] an·a·me·sa: Greek. adv. between, among, within Table of Contents vi Contributors ART 43 Accompanied by Feelings Rachel Granofsky ix Editor’s Note ART 44 Fountain of Youth Blakely Casswell POETRY 1 Untitled Harry Cepka ART 45 Sense of Erosion Sof$a Garfias NONFICTION 2 Out of Itself: Vito Acconci and the Body of the Listener Sophie Landres ART 46 Met, Map, Pennies, 2012 Sara J W inston FICTION 12 Styx Jonathan Morgan FICTION 47 Long-Term Care POETRY 25 Cycles of the White Wilderness Joy Henr y James Bradley NONFICTION 58 "e Mediating Brush: Presence and Persona NONFICTION 26 Nightwood: Towards a Deterritorialization of Excess in Fan Kuan’s Travelers among Streams and Mountains Elizavetta Koemets Elizabeth Lee FICTION 37 Nothing Related POETRY 74 Playing the Woman’s Part Lisa Martens Chris Santiago 40 POETRY A Surprise FICTION 75 Judd’s Studio Door Sean Nolan Lex Kosieradzki 41 1:43 PM, Friday, 3/16/2013 ART NONFICTION 79 A Politics of Complexity Whitney Oldenburg Sajda van der Leeuw ART 42 Somewhere Over Rachel Granofsky COVER IMAGE Consistently Reconsidering the Target, 2012 Archival inkjet print, 10 in x 15 in Sara J Winston Contributors !e Mirror. Currently based in San Francisco, her latest body of work is focused on tropes of trompe l’eoil painting in combination with sculptural interventions, arranged for the precise point of view of the camera’s lens, to transform the appearance of structure into liminal space. Joy Henry studies creative writing in the MFA program at Oregon State University and Contributors has stories forthcoming or previously published in New England Review Digital, !e Claw, and !e Leland Quarterly. James Bradley is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has Elizavetta Koemets is a student at NYU’s Draper Program, a graduate of Vassar Col- been exhibited at Robert Berman Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Triple Base Gallery (San Fran- lege, a wanderer of cities, and a drinker of tea. She is fond of impossibilities and is currently cisco, CA) and Maniac Gallery (Oakland, CA). His poems have appeared in Caliban Online, writing on aporias of the city in modernist literature. She is presenting her paper “Grimly BLACK&WHITE (Red Ochre Press), Eccolinguistics (Delete Press), and elsewhere. Reaping: !e Mythic Harvest in Melancholy” at a conference on the reception of ancient Blakely Casswell was born and raised in northeast Florida. A#er earning a BA with a myths at the University of Lodz this November. focus in $ne art, she attended school in Havana, Cuba; she then moved to Los Angeles where Lex Kosieradzki (b. Minneapolis, MN) is an artist, writer, and musician based in she worked at the Hammer Museum for three years. Since moving to New York to complete Oakland, California. His work explores the nature of objects and the (sometimes) dual reali- her Master’s degree in Museum Studies at NYU, she has worked within the Exhibition Man- ties of the metaphysical and the experiential. He is a former member of the band Roy Cordial agement Department at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, as well and !e Sodas, and acting CEO of the Technical Youth Corporation, which has never made as Independent Curators International. Blakely is currently researching alternative exhibition any money. He has exhibited and performed his work at a college art gallery, some basements, models for her thesis, and upon graduation she intends to contribute to the $eld of exhibition a library in Vermont, an Odd Fellows Temple rumored to have a human skeleton hidden in planning for contemporary art. one of its walls, a car dealership, a gallery in a renovated diamond-cutting factory in Amster- Harry Cepka is pursuing an MFA in $lmmaking at Tisch School of the Arts. Pre- dam, an abandoned hardware store in Marfa, TX, and a hipster art warehouse somewhere in viously, he studied literature at McGill University, media philosophy at European Graduate Los Angeles. School, and served in 2012 as managing editor for University of Toronto’s annual Hart House Sophie Landres is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University, specializing in post- Review. WWII intermedia art. Her dissertation, “Body, Law, Instrument: Charlotte Moorman’s Sof!a Gar"as is a Mexican artist, currently based in New York. She received her BA in Sound-Sculpture Performances,” examines how the cellist and Happenings artist Charlotte Communication and Media in 2012 from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where Moorman addressed issues of corporeality, indeterminacy, and dissent. Landres holds a BA she worked as a Radio Art Talk Show Host for Ibero 90.9. In 2013 she graduated from the One in Political Science from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing Year C er ti$cate Program in Fine Art Photography at the International Center of Photography from the School of Visual Arts. Before beginning her PhD, she worked as a curator, art critic, in NYC. Sof%a’s artwork involves several photographic techniques, including video, and her and gallery director. Landres currently teaches at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the NYU concept is mainly focused on re-projecting personal experiences back into space and time, Gallatin School of Individualized Study. which distances yet connects the viewer to her interpretation of reality. She has been part of Elizabeth Lee earned a BA in Economics and Art History from the University of several group shows in Mexico City, NYC, and Peoria, Illinois. Notre Dame and an MA in Art History at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her research interests Rachel Granofsky (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada) graduated from California College of include the cross-cultural transfer of technologies in premodern East Asia, the representa- the Arts, San Francisco with an MFA in 2013. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt tion of sacred spaces in the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, as well as the construction of Institute, New York in 2003. She has exhibited in numerous group shows in South Africa, Ger- art historical knowledge in early modern Korea and Japan. She has organized exhibitions many, Canada, the U.S.A., and Brazil, and has been awarded artist residencies at Greatmore of contemporary art in New York and South Korea, and is a regular contributor to the IFA’s Studios, South Africa (2011); CELLspace, San Francisco (2010); and James Baird, Newfound- Contemporary Art Consortium. land (2009). From 2000–2008 she helped run the collective (Roy Street) in Montreal, an inter- Lisa Martens currently lives in Brooklyn and studies Creative Writing at CCNY. She disciplinary performing arts venue and exhibition space. Her series of portraits of prominent enjoys diving into waves and jotting down any conversation she overhears. Drop her a line at and underground citizens of Montreal ran for over $ve years in Montreal’s alternative weekly, [email protected]. vi vii Contributors Jonathan Morgan is a student of religion and psychology pursuing a PhD at Boston University. His interests range broadly but always return to a deep fascination with what curi- ous and amazing animals we are. He is currently working with a team exploring the neural underpinnings of religious thought, but he keeps pet projects on the relationship between re- ligion, culture, and mental health as a good excuse to travel and learn with wonderful people. Editor’s Note Sean Nolan is a $rst-year PhD student in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He was born and raised in Western Massachusetts and received his BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. When time allows, he performs in Harlem and beyond as a bassist, Born of our very notions of being, the concept of presence is at once lucid and guitarist, and singer-songwriter. elusive. To speak of the present is to speak not only of what is here and now Whitney Oldenburg was born on February 28, 1987 in Jacksonville, FL, the young- but what has been absent and what could be lost. Presence, it seems, is always est of $ve children. She graduated from Cornell University with a Fine Arts degree, concen- emerging and already slipping away.