SUSANISIMA

Susana Vargas Cervantes

Es una académica interdisciplinaria, reconocida internacionalmente por su trabajo artístico y académico en las intersecciones de la criminología alternativa, los estudios visuales y los estudios queer, tanto en América del Norte como en América Latina. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Frieze, I-D, Vice, El País, CBS Inside Edition, entre otros.

Es autora de los libros: The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) y Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015). Ha co-curado exposiciones en Tate Britain, Museo Jumex, Ford Foundation Gallery. Después de una estancia Fulbright en la Universidad de Columbia, se unió a la Universidad de Carleton como profesora en Estudios de Comunicación y Medios.

︎ MAS

LIBROS

︎ The Little Old Lady Killer

NYU Press, 2019

︎ Mujercitos

Editorial RM, 2015

︎ Aprehendiendo al delincuente

UNAM-McGill, 2011

WRITINGS

︎ Scholarly
︎ Essays

SPEAKING

︎ Podcasts
︎ Text Interviews
︎ Presentations

CURATORIAL

︎︎︎Ford Foundation Gallery
cantando bajito

︎ TATE BRITAIN

Stan Firm inna Inglan

︎ MUSEO JUMEX

En Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni

︎ CCE

Lo que se ve no se pregunta

PROJECTS

︎ Mesas de Diálogo

︎ Queering curatorial practices
︎ Seven to Eleven dreams

︎ A life in a liminal space

ABOUT

A LIFE IN A LIMINAL SPACE

Pop song writing

Saadane Afif invited me to write a song about Marcel Duchamp’s ready made The Fountain as part of his exhibition “The Fountain Archives” at Museo Jumex in 2019.

Jumex Museum, Mexico City
MAY.2019

︎ More on the exhibition
︎ More on Saadane Afif “The Fountain Archives” project

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A Life In A Liminal Space

Susana Vargas Cervantes/S.A.

I long to be contained
So, I poured myself on you
But through your wholes I disappeared
And I don’t know where I went

Ambitions gone beyond
Challenged gestures and affects
Upside down representation

Accused of plagiarism to a plumber
Plagiarism to a spectacular Elsa
I don’t know
But yet you defined me and us

Ambitions gone beyond
Challenged gestures and affects
Machine aesthetics

As I parted
Divided
I came together again
Your wholes were well thought
I just didn’t know

Intentions gone beyond
Challenged gestures and affects
Upside down interpretations

You made it or not
There is a new thought
You knew it or not
I was contained

Forever changed
I live in a liminal space
Lost between the ordinary
Or elevated to the form

Intentions gone beyond
Challenged gestures and affects
Upside down interpretations

I turned yellow