“I want a dyke for president,” wrote artist and activist Zoe Leonard in her 1992 text piece, a prose poem and manifesto of sorts. Zoe Leonard’s “I want a president” will be on view from Oct. 11 to Nov. 17, 2016, on the High Line under the Standard hotel, overlooking West 13th and Little West 12th Streets. initNewsletterSignup(); // Focus on the email input box } } var cookieSettings = { + '
' A collective reading of the poem will be held at the White House on Sunday, October 16, 2016. The prints were unveiled at the Treatment Action Group’s Research in Action Awards last week, with sales to benefit the organization. //if any of these cookies are found, we don't show the modal. Over the past three decades, she has produced work in photography and sculpture that has been celebrated for its lyrical observations of daily life coupled with a rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image making and display. setNewsletterCookie('closedSignupBar', 1); setNewsletterCookie('recentlyShown', 1); + '' function addCss(fileName) { } “This text was written in 1992âlong before the age of social media. isnewsletter = pagetypeurl.includes("?page_1"); CollectionsOn ViewArtistsExhibitionsFavorites. $modal.show(); document.cookie = prefix + cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/"; The work leverages her hunger for honesty into a scorching political aesthetic: “I want a dyke for president,” the missive reads. $modal.addClass( $modal.hasClass('slideInUp') ? $form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); }; script.crossorigin = "anonymous"; onSuccess(); for(var i = 0; i ' Zoe Leonard ‘s beloved 1992 text work I Want a President was revived in the lead-up to the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and now, just after the midterms, it’s getting new life again—this time as a series of 100 prints, half of which are reserved for museums only. // Init - Anything you want to happen onLoad (usually event bindings) In collaboration with artist Zoe Leonard, they made an adaptation of her text I want a president… (1992) in Swedish, and on the day before the election gathered with other concerned citizens in a square in Stockholm to read the English and Swedish texts together, over and over again, for one hour. + '<\/form>' (27.9 × 21.6 cm) MediumInk on onionskin paper, glass, and L pins. Sarah Cascone, // Does the email match our regex? head.appendChild(link); $('body').on( 'click', '.close-signup', function(){ ‘I want a dyke for president. */ Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019.15. Zoe Leonard created this work in 1992, the year that poet Eileen Myles ran for president as an independent candidate alongside George H.W. }) setTimeout(function() { defernl() }, 250); } Zoe Leonard has released a new edition of her famed ‘I Want a President’ poem in support of an HIV activist group. // ------------------------------------------------------------------- ctx.customSerializer(); function daysToMinutes(numDays) { + '
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