Jennifer West: Media Archaeology
"West's poignant commentary on the ever-accelerating culture of urban renewal feels urgent in this particular moment when city life as we once knew it is changing suddenly in the blink of an eye."
—Olivia Gauthier, The Brooklyn Rail
Edited by Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers
Essays by Norman Klein, Andy Campbell, and Chelsea Weathers
Interview with Stuart Comer
Published by Radius Books, 2022
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Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art
“An elegantly disciplined page turner, Bound Together interweaves the various cultures of leather sex and the archive with solid research, sly humor, and patient interpretation. In this context, Campbell's sections on a selected group of contemporary and modern artists are particularly insightful.”
—Catherine Lord, author of The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men
”Sex is good to think with, but Andy Campbell's leathersex is even better. This exuberant, challenging, perceptive, cleverly crafted and generously illustrated study explores the role of BDSM in visual and material art, performance and archival practice - while, in the process, becoming its own sexual archive. A new kind of art history, Bound together transforms our comprehensions of sex and apprehensions of the archive.”
—Barry Reay, author of New York Hustlers and Sex in the Archives
Published by Manchester University Press, 2020
Queer X Design
"Sometimes, a rebellion begins with a rebrand. In Queer X Design, the professor Andy Campbell weaves a telling visual tapestry of an emerging L.G.B.T.Q. language and identity."
—The New York Times
"A big, bold, and inspiring collection of the visual imagery that both represented and shaped the identity of the LGBTQ movement."
—The Advocate
"This illuminating compendium by art historian and curator Andy Campbell is a deep dive into more than 50 years of the extraordinary art and design that came to represent the LGBTQ movement...Queer X Design is a must-read for anyone interested in the convergence of design, politics, and activism."
—Metropolis Magazine
"A beautifully bound, well-researched book that draws a lineage of LGBTQ designs richer than a thousand rainbow Ralph Lauren polos. Campbell's book details an uncut LGBTQ artistry, spanning digital, print, paint, and even ink n' skin work (check out the Phil Sparrow's Tattoo Flash for that good stuff) -- tracing back to the days of pre-liberation and upward into the 21st century."
—The Austin Chronicle
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019
Endpapers and back cover design by Xavier Schipani
Athey is one…
…of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career.
Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages.
Emphasizing the ephemeral and largely uncollectible nature of his work, the book places Athey’s own writing at its centre, turning to memoir, memory recall and other modes of retrieval and narration to archive his performances.
In addition to documenting Athey’s art, ephemera, notes and drawings, the volume features commissioned essays, concise 'object lessons' on individual objects in the Athey archive, and short testimonials by friends and collaborators including Dominic Johnson, Amber Musser, Julie Tolentino, Ming Ma, David Getsy, Alpesh Patel and Zackary Drucker, among others. Together they form Queer Communion, a counter history of contemporary art.
Available from Intellect Press
Spring 2020
Queer Communion: Ron Athey
“Queer Communion: Ron Athey has a crush on a man who makes work out of all of the cultural cosmologies around him. It reads like a series of love affairs, a 439-page cruising diary through one of the most garrulous, affectionate, and deeply misunderstood practitioners working today.”
—Bradford Nordeen, Los Angeles Review of Books
“This substantial book, a companion volume to a career survey set to open at Participant Inc in January, includes tributes by devoted colleagues but is most engaging as a compendium of Mr. Athey’s own writing, much of it autobiographical. Whether he’s speaking as an ex-Pentecostal, a punk rocker, a porn magazine columnist, an H.I.V. positive gay activist or a mentor to generations of queer nonconformists, he’s a bracing read, and never more so than when he’s playing, shock-jock style, with ethical fire.”
—Holland Cotter, The New York Times
Published by Intellect Press, 2020
Edited by Andy Campbell and Amelia Jones
Essays by Lisa Teasley, Ken Gonzalez Rice, Leon J. Hilton, Lisa Newman, Vaginal Davis, Cesar Padilla, Jonathan D. Katz, Julie Tolentino, Zackary Drucker, Bruce LaBruce, Dominic Johnson, Lia Gangitano, David Getsy, Amber Jamilla Musser, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Jennifer Doyle