Decapitated Economies New Transformative justice movements—including the abolition

Transformative justice movements—including the abolition of the prison system—consistently recognize the power of art

Focal Point Gallery (UK)

as well as a new conversation between the artist and curator Joanna Zielińska

The artist’s book’s layout and dramaturgy are inspired by three seminal performance works—Yvonne Rainer’s choreography The Mind is a Muscle (1968) and Samuel Beckett’s pieces Not I (1972) and Quad (1981)

Decapitated Economies New Transformative justice movements—including the abolitionintercalations 5 is a book of provocations wherein the reader as exhibition viewer learns that the head, despite its interminable rule over the body, necessarily underestimates the sophistication of corporeal desire when such desire is unleashed in accord with the principles of a general economy. This long awaited collection of carefully assembled contributions explores a wide spectrum of headlessness and its many operational formsranging from the