- Assignment Title: I want a dyke Kardashian
- Assignment Description:
Rewrite of Zoe Leonard's infamous "I want a dyke for president" as "I want a dyke Kardashian" - make it as long as you want, ascribe them some of your humanity
- Created by: Medb
- Responded by: Yulin Huang, Medb, Roberta Borroni, Francesco Felletti
Medb - Untitled
RB: It was fun to rewrite a political poem, even though the Kardashians' culture is not something I really grew up with or know much about. Because I don't know any facts about their lives I took them as a symbol of influence in relation to our beauty standards, and it was fun to start from there.
YH: A section for each artist to reflect on their work—what they found challenging, exciting, or surprising.The substantial weight of Zoe Leonard’s infamous “I want a dyke for president” was a feast to encounter in the year 2025. It was fruitful watching other prominent writers and artists respond to the piece at High Line Art’s afternoon of readings/performances (2016). So many magnetic words and phrases sounded the platform and moved the people out of immediate sight. I was inspired to collage some of these fragments with some cliché, textured headlines I came across to form this little piece. I envision a Kardashian lost to the mountains and stars and eventual galaxies because this planet simply holds too much incomprehensible lesser-of-two-evils noise.
M: This is a concept I came up with a few years ago on the night bus home from work and would occasionally come up with lines for in my head but never did anything with. The hard part of writing this was knowing when to stop; in theory, its a piece that could go on indefinitely - which was kind of why I decided to take the idea out of retirement for this project and see what other people could contribute to it.
FF: It was hard to work on this topic. The Kardashians were never really part of my culture, so I guess I don’t totally get their appeal and story. But I really enjoyed discovering Zoe Leonard's work.