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saké blue. : Selected Writings of Estelle Hoy

Writer

Estelle Hoy

Editor

Antonia Carrara

Price

$34.95

Date

2024

Publisher

After 8 Books

Format

Literary

ISBN

978-2-492650-14-7

Size

12 × 18.5 cm

Length

216 pp

Genre

Arts Writing, Essays

Jacques Lacan’s most obscure seminar footnote? Estelle Hoy says yes. In saké blue, overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows us to discuss the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges, or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath, or a poem by Yvonne Rainer.

saké blue gathers critical essays, art reviews, and poetic fiction. Written in dialogue with the work of Martine Syms, Marlene Dumas, Hervé Guibert, or Camille Henrot, these texts combine the subjective and analytic, addressing power relations and the force of affect. Hoy spares nothing—and no one, exposing cultural clichés and urgent political issues through fast-paced acerbity. She advocates the work of women artists, mocks stereotypes, questions myths, and champions desire, sadness, and boredom. Simultaneously beautiful, lyrical, and cutthroat, her writing echoes to the reader like l’esprit d’escalier—we think of the perfect reply just a little too late.

Edited by Antonia Carrara
With an introduction by Lisa Robertson
Cover art by Camille Henrot
Design by Marco Caroti