Feeling Upon Arrival
Saretta Morgan
July 2018
there was an urgent need for instruments of observation. we laid our hands on one another, on bedposts, old door frames, xerox machines… isn’t it true that we are, at some point, capable of anything? someone wanted to know. our mouths produced noncommittal forms, but we were on to something sensitive to temperature and light.
In this text, the language of theory takes on the character of a metaphysics.
Douglas Kearney
Inspired by the potential of space to order experiences of time and desire, the language in Feeling Upon Arrival turns between orienting device and sensual index. Characters emerge and disperse as gestures across a queered and somatic geography in pursuit of the bodies present landscapes deny.
First edition, second printing (2022)
About the Author
As a text-based artist, Saretta Morgan’s work engages relationships between intimacy and organization. Recent writhing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Guardian, The Volta, Nepantla, Apogee and Best American Experimental Writing. She has designed interactive, text-based experiences for The Whitney Museum of American Art, Dia Beacon, and Tenri Cultural Institute. Saretta received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She is a 2016-2017 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace resident and author of the chapbook, Room for a Counter Interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2017)rn
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The precision of language in Feeling Upon Arrival seems to feint, only to land the blow elsewhere. In this text, the language of theory takes on the character of a metaphysics—I think that's what the feint is about. It is a good and hungry almost finding itself in the speaker's body.
Douglas Kearney
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Chapbook
Hand-bound. 32 pp, 4 x 6 in
Publication Date: July 01 2018
Distribution: Direct Only