Publication Details 302 pages; 108 × 177 mm; Softcover; Edition of 400; No image plates. ISBN: 978-0-9945388-2-6
Author and/or Editor name/s Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange)
Author and/or Editor bio/s Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks) is a critical art collective who live and work on Wangal country. They make texts, objects, meals, and events. Homework, a book of essays, was published by Discipline in 2021. They both lecture at UNSW and are members of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network and the Rosa Press publishing collective.
Year of publication 2021
Publisher Discipline, Melbourne
Abstract Homework is an edited anthology of writings by the critical art collective Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange). It includes twenty-seven texts (comprising of essays, reviews, poems, lectures, and artist talks), written between 2016 and 2020, and an introduction by Tom Melick. Homework considers the manifold ways that embodied life (birth, death, love, friendship, solidarity, race, gender, sexuality, citizenship) are conditioned by a world that appears both ruinous and full of potential. Snack Syndicate asks how to read ruins and how to read the prophecy of hope that threads together a long history of survival and struggle. The book offers a guide for this reading, taking study to be a lifelong practice. It suggests a model for homework as the promise we make to each other through study and to the ghosts who carry us forward. Throughout the twenty-seven texts, works by local and international artists (such as Vincent Namatjira, Claire Milledge, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sally M. Nangala Mulda, The Manus Recording Project, Vernon Ah Kee, Helen Johnson, and Arthur Jafa) as well as writings by a broad range of theorists (including Aileen Moreton-Robinson, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Adrienne Rich, Lauren Berlant, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kodwo Eshun) are analysed in rigorous and inventive ways.
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