Writing
1996 – Present
Art Writing, Books, Poetry, Electronic Litterature
I’m an art writer and the author of 4 poetry books in English, 1 poetry book in French and 2 books about the emergence of self-organized cyber-communities, in French as well.
Books
Deep & Fast is a collection of poems meant to re/tell the Pandemic as a testament to the urgency of connection. Kickstarter Book
Invasions is my year long attempt to spam scammers with poetry ... and what unfolded. What started as poetic text replies to scammers slowly extended to other forms of literature. Slowly, every text genre became a candidate for poetic invasion: I remixed conspiracy-filled social posts, reimagined meditation exercises, made collages out of porn phishing emails, perverted astrological chart readings, jumbled American jokes and so much more. Invasions became an eponymous book, collection of art prints and a poetry show. Kickstarter Book
In the Name of Scandal is a collection of poems about sluthood, the immigrant identity, queerness and plants that make you see colors. Kickstarter Book
Flight of the jaguar is a collection of poems about ethical sluthood, the immigrant identity, queerness and plants that make you see colors, and my most Instapoet work. Kickstarter Book
Ricochets, my first poetry book, written in French, was published by Librairie Orientale, a Lebanese publishing house.
Regards sur un XXIe siècle en mouvement was published by Ellipses, prefaced by Jacques Attali and co-authored with Thomas and Simon Porcher as well as Steve Ohana.
Reprises ou Re/crises? was published by Respublica and co-authored with Thomas Porcher.
Poetry & Electronic Litterautre
We Called Us Poetry appeared in Voidspace Zine.
Act 1, Scene 1 appeared in Winged Penny Review.
Prelude to Excitement appeared in The San Franciscan and Winged Penny Review.
Letter to the Body in B-flat Minor was published in Wordswell.
Variations on Food and Grief, a pandemical reflection on the viral nature of routines and its echoing of the viral spread, appeared in Lunate.
What song do you listen to when you want to remember a certain time in your life? appeared in Be About It and Rabid Oak.
As Home Becomes Metaphor appeared in The Racket, Colossus:Home and Quiet Lightning.
What would a poetry vying for attention look like? in Poetry NYC’s Clickbait.
Art Writing
Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ demonstrates the radical empathy we need right now. The long-running solo show channels 11 folks crossing identity-based and geographic borders, and remains a must-see. Published in 48hills.
Saturating the mundane with the sensual in JP Morrison Lans’ ‘The Love Eater’. The Tulsa artist's show at Heron Arts summons the ungraspable beneath the everyday, with bold colors and body parts. Published in 48hills.
Reflections on an explosion: the Beirut disaster three years on Because the catastrophe fits no grand geopolitical narrative of war and history, its destruction is easily forgotten by the world. Published in 48hills.
Paper artist Pippa Dyrlaga bridges natural worlds in ‘Biophilia’ At Heron Arts, diaphanous visions of foliage, matriarchs, and the grandeur of the unassuming. Published in 48hills.
Mothering machines: Sasha Style’s Technelegy an AI poetry book review. Published in Compulsive Reader.
A Pendulum Swings in Paradise Sandy Ostrau: ‘Paradise Revisited’ in Santa Barbara’s Thomas Reynolds Gallery.
Ressucitating flowers Cornelis Kick, Louis Valtat and William Scott at Canvas and Paper, in Ojai Valley News.
The Poetics of Omission: Alex Gardner’s “We All Exist Right Now” at the Long Beach Museum of Art, in Art and Cake LA.
Rekindling the figurative, Larry Vigon at Silo gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent.
What is America?, Glenn Ligon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Zoe Leonard at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent.
Hybrid Bodies, Canvas and Paper’s curation of Moore, Picasso and Hepworth, in Ojai Valley News [PDF].
What survives in transition, Porfirio Gutierrez and Tanya Aguiñiga at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent.
Visual Artists Bring a Gentle Rewiring to Santa Barbara, Diana Thater, Wu Chi-Tsung and Petra Cortright at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in the Santa Barbara Independent.
Rosha Yaghmai: ‘Drifters’ at MCASB in the Santa Barbara Independent [PDF].