R Morris Levine (1994, New York City, NY, USA) is mostly a writer. He pays attention—tends—to language: its uses and abuses; its poethics; its politics and performances; its fissures; its failures. As of 18:37 Eastern Standard Time on December 18, 2024, he is interested in: absurdity, ambiguity, anxiety, bureaucracy, dandyism, deixis, domesticity, vernacular dictionaries, dissemblance, eavesdropping, the etymology of shark, the essay, garbology, idiorrhythmy, marginalia, marginality, misprision, laconism, the nervous sort of laughter, letters between friends (such as Fleur Jaeggy and Ingeborg Bachmann or Yann Andréa, né Lemée and Marguerite Duras), lists, noise, ordinariness, the infra-ordinary, pidgin, quiet, reading, salt, semiology, sleep, spontaneity, taxonomy, tea from Kamikatsu or Otoyo Village, tenderness, the terror and torture of writing, writing anyway, walking, waste, weariness, work, absurdity.
Levine is a doctoral student in Literature, with certificates in African & African American Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, at Duke University; a member of the editorial collective of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory; and, from 2018 to 2024, was the editor of Zolo, a publisher of artists’ books. He holds a master’s in Art and the Public Domain from Harvard University, where he copped the George M. McCue Medal, a bachelor’s in Fine Art and Science, Technology, and Society from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded the Society of the College Prize, and a certificate from the School of Criticism & Theory at Cornell University, where he received the Diacritics Essay Prize.
Title | Medium | Dimensions | Year ↓ |
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Freely Espousing: James Schuyler, Surveillance Poetry, and the Queer Otic | Essay | 5,182 words | 2024 |
Birthday, Bridget Mullen | Book | 22 × 32 cm, 120 pages | 2024 |
Friendship as a Way of Life | Class | 5 weeks, 20 people | 2023 |
Diario de Plantas, Gabriel Orozco | Book | 17 × 22 cm, 1,452 pages | 2023 |
Fergus Feehily, Fergus Feehily | Book | 23 × 30 cm, 224 pages | 2023 |
Masks, Damián Ortega | Book | 21 × 28 cm, 208 pages | 2023 |
Re:monument | Class | 7 weeks, 16 people | 2022 |
Can’t Go Unless We All Go, Otis Houston Jr. | Book | 17 × 23 cm, 184 pages | 2022 |
Hana Miletić | Interview | 2,332 words | 2022 |
Marie Hazard, Marie Hazard | Book | 23 × 30 cm, 284 pages | 2022 |
Sidewalks, Adam McEwen | Book | 21 × 29 cm, 108 pages | 2022 |
Caryl Burtner | Interview | 2,571 words | 2022 |
AVJ, MF, Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François | Book | 25 × 30 cm, 332 pages | 2022 |
Walead Beshty | Interview | 4,322 words | 2021 |
Full of Emptiness, Machteld Rullens | Book | 21 × 29 cm, 192 pages | 2021 |
Tombstones | Single-channel audio, conventional 100lb hooks, conventional 50lb hooks, conventional 30lb hook, steel 30lb utility hooks, Hang-Straight Hook (patent #5069412), security wall brackets, Hangman Softy Heavy Duty Frame Hanger, heavy-duty cleat hanger, pro brass hook nail, walnut, 26-gauge zinc-plated sheet metal, hygrometer | 520 × 338 × 280 cm, 31'32" | 2021 |
Hanne Lippard | Interview | 1,638 words | 2021 |
The thought that counts (2¢) | Exchange rate boards, single-channel audio | 127 × 101 × 8 cm, 2'54" | 2021 |
Ryan Foerster | Interview | 1,653 words | 2021 |
Accidentally, which happens sometimes | Three-channel audio and video | 20'45" | 2021 |
Fake News, Wilfredo Prieto | Book | 20 × 30 cm, 272 pages | 2021 |
The Right to Silence | Essay | 4,391 words | 2021 |
Local Warming, Sebastian Black | Book | 22 × 30 cm, 124 pages | 2021 |
Furtive Ground | Single-channel audio and video, field recordings, IBM Watson | 6'25" | 2021 |
Julia Rommel, Julia Rommel | Book | 24 × 31 cm, 288 pages | 2021 |
Jill Magid | Interview | 3,281 words | 2020 |
Francesco Pedraglio & Tania Pérez Córdova | Interview | 1,684 words | 2020 |
Art and the Public Domain | Class | 12 weeks, 15 people | 2020 |
Qualis Artifex Pereo (what an artist dies with me) | Teleprompter, found poetry | 46 × 178 × 46 cm, 11'00" | 2020 |
Studio Language | Class | 12 weeks, 7 people | 2020 |
Dorothée Perrett & Oscar Tuazon | Interview | 1,465 words | 2020 |
Charwei Tsai | Interview | 1,825 words | 2020 |
Koenraad Dedobbeleer | Interview | 2,117 words | 2020 |
Idea Art for Kids, Mark A. Rodriguez | Book | 27 × 24 cm, 96 pages | 2020 |
Gabriel Kuri | Interview | 2,006 words | 2020 |
Lucas Blalock | Interview | 2,097 words | 2020 |
MP.19, Matt Paweski | Book | 22 × 29 cm, 200 pages | 2020 |
Branches, Sven Lukin | Book | 22 × 28 cm, 124 pages | 2019 |
Marc Breslin | Interview | 1,822 words | 2019 |
Tokyo Private (Un Roman Photo), Harold Ancart | Book | 18 × 25 cm, 208 pages | 2019 |
Ann Bobco & B.Wurtz | Interview | 2,885 words | 2019 |
Sticksville, Marc Breslin | Book | 14 × 21 cm, 112 pages | 2019 |
Ari Marcopoulos | Interview | 808 words | 2019 |
El Topo y La Tetera, Gabriel Sierra | Book | 19 × 26 cm, 92 pages | 2019 |
Di-agnosis | Essay | 8,154 words | 2019 |
May Castleberry | Interview | 3,020 words | 2019 |
Baby Comet Face, Yann Gerstberger | Book | 24 × 30 cm, 232 pages | 2019 |
Aegolius verizon | Essay | 529 words | 2018 |
Diary of a Senseless Work, Beatriz Gonzaléz | Book | 23 × 30 cm, 128 pages | 2018 |
Philosophy from B to Z, B. Wurtz | Book | 22 × 32 cm, 108 pages | 2018 |