Zaum Is Autonomous (Poem by Clara B. Jones)

Zaum Is Autonomous*

Feminism || ORLAN || Postmodernism→Interoperational

All Art is about women.

Käthe Kollwitz || Helen Frankenthaler || Matriarchy || Hierarchy

All Art is gendered.

Beauty || Perfection→The West [Arc]

Bell-Opticon || Bell Curve→Mathematics || Maps

Gender relations || Margo Emm || Gender dysphoria || avant garde || Formalism

All Art is [about] surveillance.

It's hard. It's just too hard.

Zaum || Futurism || Kruchenykh || Enchilada

All Art is [about] itself.

Excavation || Cave painting || Primitive→Hominoid

Derrida || Episteme [Green] || Okra || Pine

All Art is [about] nothing [nihilistic].

Marriage || Mother || Motherwell→Motherboard

de Kooning || Basquiat || "Woman, I, 1950-52" || Linda Nochlin (1998)

Every love story is a horror movie.

All Art is [about] death [petit mort].

Mishima || Sadomasochism→Sword

Impermanence || Imperfection→Japan [Black] || Wabi Sabi [Beauty]

Lee Krasner || Anita Brookner→Husband

All Art is about sex.

Haraway || Cyborg || Science || Performance

All Art is political.

Identity || Decompensation || Asylum [Panopticon]

All Art is [about] madness.

Judith Butler || Anna Freud || id || “defamiliar”

All Art is [about] impulse.

Differential || Connectionism || AI [Deconstruct] || Resist [Disrupt]

Women placed in boxes—kitchens, nurseries, patisseries [Holly Iglesias]

*Published May 2019 in The Curly Mind  (Es, Reuben Woolley, Editor)
Published April 2020 in Women Artists: Poems (ma press, Fi, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Editor/Publisher)