Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (Un-) Belonging in Europe

Slouching is an auto-ethnographic collection of essays, art, and film photography. Made across fourteen countries and twenty-three cities over the course of six months, it focuses on the affective qualities of geography through casual interviews, critical examinations of museums, and personal reflections. The book also considers the author’s role as the recipient of a CIRCE Fellowship, and how political economies of creativity impact not just communities but individuals, defining what it means to be an “artist” or “creative.”

The essays in Slouching are broad in scope, examining anticommunist memory culture in Lithuania, the ideological underpinnings of the IKEA Museum, France’s relationship to its colonial empire, oysters on the half shell, dead horses, skinned knees, fascist art, eating disorders, stray cats, cocktail bars, and sunstroke. Essays are paired with ephemera, original illustrations, and photographs made for this project. The author assumes the role of the ​​flâneur, combining subjective narration with rhetorical analysis and drawing upon philosophical, sociological, and literary traditions of placeliness.

A5 size, 93 pages, color. Printed on FSC certified paper.