Ariana Reines
Wave of Blood, 2024
£12
Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, 'Wave of Blood' is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.
Dimensions
214 x 140mm
Finishing
Softcover, 160pp
Ariana Reines and Oscar Tuazon, PUBIC SPACE, courtesy the artists and Modern Art
About The Artwork
"Is it the computerization of the planet Or a loosening of my fidelity to suffering I don’t understand the intensity I’ve hidden here but I know I despaired Of finding a physical place to keep My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them . . ." Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, 'Wave of Blood' is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.
About Ariana Reines
Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie award-winning playwright, performing artist and translator. Ariana’s books include ‘A Sand Book’, winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and long listed for The National Book Award; ‘The Cow’, winner of The Alberta Prize; ‘Couer de Lion’; ‘Mercury’ and ‘The Origin of the World’. Her Obie winning play ‘Telephone’ was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and has been performed and published in Norwegian Translation (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others. In 2012 she created ‘Ancient Evenings’, an innovative platform generating creative writing through ancient texts, as well as ‘Lazy Eye Haver’, an astrology practice through which she pioneered new forms arts and consciousness pedagogy.
Performances and theatrical works by Reines include ‘Mortal Kombat’ (2015), commissioned by Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne and performed at the Whitney Museum, New York and Gallery TPW, Canada. Group exhibitions include ‘Mars Returns’ (2022) in Kaunas, Lithuania, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas; ’Sperm Cult’ (2019) at LAXART, curated by Hamza Walker and ‘PUBIC SPACE’ (2016), a collaboration with Oscar Tuazon at Modern Art, London.
Her poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The Believer, The Boston Review, Bomb, Granta, Harpers and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Reines has composed texts for and interviewed many artists, including Nicole Eisenman, Niki de Saint Phalle, K8 Hardy, Seth Price, Oscar Tuazon, Justine Kurland, Liz Larner, Anna Sew Hoy, Carol Rama, Mondongo, Izhar Patkin and Sanya Kantarovsky.