I Dare You
Stephanie Sauer, USA
| I Dare You : Stephanie
Sauer, Rough & Ready, California, USA, 2012 I Dare You is my hymn to each and every page, person, symbol, codex, mural, tapestry, scroll, carving and oral account throughout history that has been banned, shamed, destroyed or subverted. Each image is a surviving piece of a work or a culture or a tradition whose destruction was attempted or achieved. Somehow, always, these pieces survive or are remade. So, destroy this book. Drown it. Question its legitimacy, relevancy, need. Strike a match and light this book aflame. This impetus to make and impart cannot be erased. 6" x 7.25" x 0.5"; Paper, White-Out, thread, ink, sandpaper Stephanie Sauer, MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008 Awards: 2012, 2010 Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission Grants. 2011 Corporation of Yaddo Fellowship, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Colony Residency. 2009 Finalist, Poetry Center of Chicago's Juried Reading. 2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Writing Fellowship. 2005 Finalist, Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction Exhibitions: 2012 Fábrica Aberta Off-ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro; Body Stories, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA. 2008-2012 Chicago Cultural Center's Publishers Gallery, Chicago. 2007 Encounters II, De Young Museum, San Francisco Publications: 2012 Boom: A Journal of California; WTF?. 2011 Alimentum, 2008 Alehouse Press; Verse Daily. writeme@stephaniesauer.com www.stephaniesauer.com |