Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Author: Johanna Burton (Author, Editor), Rizvana Bradley (Author), Mel Y. Chen (Author), Jeannine Tang (Author), Julia Bryan-Wilson (Author), Natalie Bell (Editor), Lisa Phillips (Foreword), Lia Gangitano (Contributor), Ariel Goldberg (Contributor), Jack Halberstam (Contributor), Fred Moten (Contributor), Eric Stanley (Contributor), Sara O'Keeffe (Contributor), Kate Wiener (Contributor)
Publisher: New Museum
Year: 2018
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-0915557165

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.