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A book by Devon pardue

Book cover with the title Leviathans: Queer Mischief in an Amphibious Ecology. Extending across the bottom is a Leviathan, an aquatic monster, suspended in water. It has features of a variety of different species.

Description

Leviathans: Queer Mischief in an Amphibious Ecology  is an artist book and flipbook hybrid investigating queer becoming in the ecology of the Gulf South. Through a combination of research, illustration, and rumination, it peeks into the terra incognita of our muddy wetlands, and the trickster Leviathans that emerge from its muck. These queer wilds are not an idyllic nature, but rather one tangled up in brilliant decadence, captivating monstrosity, and soggy beyond-human kinships.

An Alligator pokes the top of its head above the surface of the water. The reflection below it is wildly distorted and fantastical. Lines like fabric folds extend out from the gator and are adorned with many pearls, clawed feet, fish fins, scales, etc.
A man in a pirogue uses one long paddle to move across the water. He is maneuvering his canoe to a floating garden. A floating platform holds the plants, keeping them suspended above water.

publisher

Antenna Press

Leviathans is being published by Antenna Press as a recipient of their 2024 Antenna Press Publishing Award, and printed at Antenna’s Paper Machine in New Orleans, Louisiana.This project was additionally funded in part by contributions from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation, the RosaMary Foundation, the City of New Orleans and Arts New Orleans, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Greater New Orleans Foundation IMPACT Grant, the Mellon Foundation, the Ella West Freeman Foundation.Your support of Antenna Paper Machine Program puts the power of print into the hands of artists, writers and culture bearers: www.antenna.works/donate

Author

Devon Pardue

Devon Pardue (they/them) is an experimental animator captured by the effort of non-human being and the multispecies rat’s nest of our troubled Anthropocene. Their work has taken form as short films, immersive projection installations, and other multidisciplinary new media projects. They have an MFA in Visual Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA in Animation from Kansas City Art Institute. Devon currently dilly-dallies in the vulnerable wetlands of Louisiana they are native to.

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