Juliana Huxtable

I AM NOT ONE FOR THE FAINT HEARTED

THE WHOLE OF SO CALLED COUNTER CULTURE MASQUERADING AS DEATH OBSESSED LIBERTINES WITH NOTHING TO OFFER BUT COSTUMES SAFELY SACRILEGIOUS STYLING

YOU COULDN’T WALK A DAY IN MY SHOES ...

COMPREHEND THE VIOLENCE I'VE ENDURED ...

IVE CHOSEN TO GO BEYOND

PETTY PERFORMATIVE MUSICAL SUBGENRES, REGURGITATED FASHION ICONOCLASM ...

THE BLACK AND CRIMSON TIDES THAT APPARENTLY MARK YOUR MELANCHOLY

WHERE YOU HAVE ADORNED YOUR BODY WITH THE DATED CHAOS OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE,

A NECK TATTOO

4 MORE PIERCINGS THAN CONSIDRED MODEST

I HAVE, THROUGH ELECTIVE VIOLENCE

MUTILATED MY BODY BEYOND THE RECOGNIZEABLE

A SKINGRAFT TO BUILD A PHALLIC TAIL FROM MY TAILBONE AN INTERIOR PATCHED TOGETHER FROM WHAT HUNG

MY RIBS SHAVED DOWN TO FIT MY FAVORITE CORSETTE BONES CHIPPED FROM MY CHIN AND MOUNTED AS HORNS

IVE INVAGINATED MY THIGHS MY TAINT

AND MY THROAT

I'VE WOVEN THE MARGINS OF MY MARGINALITY INTO A SURFACE FROM WHICH IT CANNOT RETURN

I AM MY FORESHADOWING, DOOM IN ITS DESIGNATION ANAUTHENTIC DARK ONE, RARE BREED

THE RAVEN RACED

RACING

TO INVAGINATION

RACING FROM

HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES WITH ANDROGYNOUS APPEAL OBSCURING AS RITUAL THE UNCHALLENGED RITE PROCLAIMING TO THE OTHER THEIR LOVE OF DEMOLITION

CONVENIENTLY AVOIDING THE FRIGHTS OF THE NIGHT

ILL GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, ASSUME IT’S DUE TO A LACK OF ALTERNATIVE UNTIL HERE UNTIL NOW

IN THE UNREDEMPTIVE CHAOS OF PANDROGYNY AN INVITATON TO MURDER THE

ROMANTIC

PURITANICAL

COHESION OF OF THE BODY

THIS IS NO PERIOD PIECE IN BLACK

SORCORESS COSTUME IN SPRING

OR A LOVE SONG FOR A FICTIONAL PALE FACED VAMPIRE

I AM WAITING IN THE UNSEEN

COMING UNDONE BY THE CHAOS OF ITS INDISTINCT VISION HACKING AND RE-ARRANGING

THROUGH THE POSESSED ARM OF THE SURGEON ELECTIVE MUTILATION OF SEXUAL COHESION, SCATTERING THE SITES OF IDENTITY PRODUCTION

ALL OVER MY FORMER BODY

I ASKED SATAN FOR DIRECTION,

AND WAS GUIDED THUSLY,

VAGINOPLASTY 3 TIMES

THREE NEW PUSSIES, BLEEDING FROM BETWEEN MY LEGS, BLEEDING FROM THE BACKS OF MY THIGH

THEN A LARYNGECTOMY,

ANUS IN THROAT, THE STOMA NOW MY TIGHTEST AND MOST EROGENOUSLY SENSITIVE ORIFICE

IF THERE IS A DARK QUEEN,

I AM HER

AND SHE IS ME

Juliana Huxtable is an artist, poet, performer and DJ born in Bryan-College Station, Texas. She attended Bard College. Recent shows and performances include epigenetic with Carolyn Lazard at Shoot the Lobster, New York, Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder at 180 The Strand, London, Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery, London, Producing Futures - An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms at Migros Museum, Zurich, and Penumbra with Hannah Black at Performance Space. Juliana is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow.