Humans

• Joseph Cuillier (author)
• Emma Steinkraus (artist)

Page count

48

Keywords

Poetry, Prose, America, United States, US, USA, Race, Black Lives, Class, Spirituality, Chapbook, Of Systems Of

Publication date

2015

Language(s)

English

Publication media type

Print Document
Chapbook
Artist's Book
Hybrid

Publication series

Unlimited Editions

The Sensitive Boy Slumber Party Manifesto

“America,
I’m sorry.
Sometimes I forget that I’m scary.
I don’t want you to be afraid of me
Because it’s scaring me.”

“America,
Unleash your psychopaths on your own children for a change
I think they’re getting bored with the taste of my flesh.
I want to feel like a child right now
And that’s not a bad thing” — from TSBSPM

“The Sensitive Boy Slumber Manifesto is a creative, genius, and cleansing shower for the soul. This work challenges social, spiritual, and emotional intersections while exposing our own internal creative apprehensions. Author and artist Joseph Cullier remains responsible with his honest depiction of self acknowledgment and evolution in America.” — LaTarvia Moore

The Sensitive Boy Slumber Party Manifesto is an intimate journey through the experiences of a second class citizen in a nation that does not exist. This collection of poetry explores the contradicting realities of genocide and democracy, mass incarceration and freedom, nihilism and self-determinism, and sentimentality. — Joseph Cuillier

About the Contributor(s)

Joseph Cuillier (b. 1988, New Orleans, LA) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores abstraction as a technology, language in space, and the history of Black radical pedagogies through social practice, installation, textile art, and design. Cuillier's installations use fashion and architecture to render bodies in space and bodies in action in an attempt to bridge gaps between living and form. Currently based in Harlem, NYC where he achieved an MFA from Pratt Institute and is currently a faculty member at Parsons and Pratt.

Cuillier's work has been exhibited, collected, and presented at New Museum, MoMA Library, Bauhaus Dessau, Bronx Museum of Art, Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute, among others.

Cuillier has been an artist-in-residence/fellow at Sweet Water Foundation courtesy of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Ideas City NOLA, Antenna, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and A Blade of Grass.

Cuillier is also the founder and co-director of The Black School, an experimental radical Black art school, and Black Love Fest NYC and HTX.

Emma Steinkraus is a visual artist living in Iowa City. Her current obsessions include imagined apocalypses, witches and mushrooming; her recurrent obsession is with depictions of romantic love. Before moving to Iowa as an Iowa Arts Fellow in the Painting program, she studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at Williams College. She has received a Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship, a Frederick M. Peyser Prize, worked as a Steamboat Scholar in Contemporary Curation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and completed residencies at the Henry Luce III Center for Arts and Religion and at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.