Snake Talk and the Zany
Photo by Robbie Sweeny.Below is some of our writing about Snake Talk, which is in part inspired by Sianne Ngai's book Our Aesthetic Categories. Specifically, we are investigating what she calls the "zany" aesthetic, allowing it to permeate the structure and physicality of our work. For a more in depth conversation regarding Ngai's research on contemporary aesthetics, read this interview with her in Cabinet magazine. * * * * * Snake Talk is a third-wave feminist proposal nestled within an extreme and often uncomfortable aesthetic