Kate Durbin
| Kate Durbin | |
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| Born | November 19, 1981 |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Poetry, fiction, fashion, visual arts, net art, pop cultural criticism |
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katedurbin.blogspot.com | |
Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles, California based writer, visual artist, and curator.[1] Durbin is the author of several books of fiction and poetry including E! Entertainment, The Ravenous Audience, and five chapbooks. Her work primarily centers around women, popular culture, and digital media.
Internet Based Projects
Durbin founded the online critical journal Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art about Lady Gaga, in 2010. The blog critically engages with Gaga's "shock pop phenomenon" and "moves at the speed of pop," responding to pop cultural phenomenon almost instantly after they occur. Gaga Stigmata has received considerable press attention from sources as diverse as NPR, CBC's Q, Yale's American Scholar Magazine, AOL, The Atlantic, Spex, Huffington Post, Pop Matters, Berfrois, Voice Tribune, and many others. Lady Gaga tweeted co-editor Meghan Vick's piece analyzing Gaga's music video "Telephone," and members of Gaga's team, including Nicola Formichetti, hair stylist Brandon Maxwell, and visual artist Millie Brown have also tweeted and praised Gaga Stigmata's work. The journal has been used as a resource in classrooms across the world, and has been studied at conferences as a phenomenon in its own right, as a new way to do criticism in the era of the internet. [2][3]
Durbin's Tumblr project Women As Objects created an online archive of the teen girl Tumblr aesthetic through real-time re-blogging.[4][5] The Tumblr project resulted in a live performance at Bellyflop in Lost Angeles, two video performances iPrincess and TUMBLR IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE I DON'T PRETEND I AM OKAY, and various artist talks. For a Hyperallergic article co-written with Alice Eler on the project, Durbin coined the term "teen girl tumblr aesthetic."[6] "The Teen Girl Tumblr Aesthetic" was the 7th most popular article on Hyperallergic in 2013.
Kate Durbin curated, "Girls Online," a best of her Women as Objects tumblr project, for the website Bright Stupid Confetti.[7] Of "Girls Online" New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz wrote: "Some of that information in that Kate Durbin show bordered on the sacred and forbidden for me. Extraordinarily important visual information to have in the culture. The ideas she's plumbing in that 'show' or 'grouping' feel apt. Ripe."
Bibliography
- E! Entertainment. Los Angeles. Insert Blanc Press. 2011 OCLC 798717474
- Kept Women." 2012. OCLC 835147784
- The Ravenous Audience. New York. Akashic. 2009. OCLC 318876217
- Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot. Chicago, Ill. Dancing Girl Press. 2009.OCLC 456560773
- ABRA. Center for Book and Paper Arts. Chicago, Ill. (iPad app and artist's book).
References
- ↑ "Interview with Kate Durbin." The Rumpus.
- ↑ About page, "Gaga Stigmata"
- ↑ "Get Your PhD in Lady Gaga." Salon.com
- ↑ ‘It’s a lot of power we wield!’ A Conversation With Ben Fama & Kate Durbin. Poetry Foundation.
- ↑ "Kate Durbin's Favorite Word is Chiffon." Poetry Foundation.
- ↑ http://womenasobjects.tumblr.com/ "Women As Ojbects." Tumblr.
- ↑ "Kate Durbin Discusses Girls Online Tumblr Project." Poetry Foundation
External links
- "In Conversation with Kate Durvin and Kate Zambreno: Trust their Art." Poetry Foundation.
- "Well covered poetry bonanza." New Yorker.
- video of Kate Durbin reading at BESHT Gallery.