ANNOUNCING 2013 NEWSPRINT AWARD FINALIST, “HATEFUL” BY HATEFUL
Thank you so much for waiting!
We spent the last month looking through every submission and are impressed with the quality and scope of the work.
There were hard decisions to make. This award is intended to stimulate self-publishing and self-distribution of your work, we are sure that many of these projects will find their way to the printing page.
We are pleased to announce that one of 2013 Newsprint Award finalists is “HATEFUL” by HATEFUL, Lydia Moyer and Tory Wright.
His work will be projected at the OBSCURA international photo festival from June 21st in Penang, Malaysia.
Congratulation to Lydia Moyer and Tory Wright!
©Hateful / Finalist 2013 newsprint award
©Hateful / Finalist 2013 newsprint award
©Hateful / Finalist 2013 newsprint award
©Hateful / Finalist 2013 newsprint award
About “Hateful”
Hateful creates, manipulates, and collages images in order to play with notions of femininity and masculinity, revealing gendered concerns as absurdist performance. Functioning as a kind of secret visual language to which the viewer is given clues but no explicit key – a kind of heterotopia – Hateful resists any kind of image hierarchy, pulling from sources that range from archival ethnographic photography to cell phone pictures to fragments of text. The project draws as much on the cinematic history of montage as it does on that of collage, using juxtaposition to create sometimes slippery meaning so that each set of images is greater than the sum of its parts. Interests include the fashions of nineteenth century mourning practice, the Unabomber, and John Baldesarri, among others.
About Hateful
Hateful is a collaborative project of Lydia Moyer and Tory Wright along with various invited guest contributors. Tory Wright received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. For many years, she was an active member of Team Lump, an internationally active collaboration based out of Lump Projects in Raleigh, NC. Her individual studio work repurposes and (literally) dissects advertising images with a feminist exacto-blade. She has had numerous solo shows in the US, most recently at Good Citizen Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri. She currently lives and works in Virginia, where she keeps a day job in visual merchandising. Lydia Moyer received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives and works in central Virginia where she directs the new media program in the art department at the University of Virginia. Her individual work is primarily experimental documentary video that examines American landscapes. It has been screened internationally at festivals including the European Media Arts Festival in Germany and the Black Maria Festival based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hateful had their first gallery exhibition at Lump Projects in March 2013. Their zines have been included in exhibitions and libraries worldwide.
The Newsprint Award 2013 in partnership with OBSCURA Festival!
The finalists’ and winner’s work of the Newsprint Award 2013 will be showcased at the final night party of OBSCURA Festival, on the 30th of June 2013.