Sophia Giovannitti Editions
Sophia Giovannitti (b. 1992) is an artist and author who lives in New York. She is interested in creating scenarios that antagonize and disturb traditional modes of value extraction from artists and workers, and what comes after choreographic failure or the nihilism of assimilation. She works across mediums including performance, text, video, revenge, and contracts. Recent work has shown at ICA London, Montclair State University Galleries, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Duplex, PPOW, Recess, and Sophia Zero Inc. Her first book Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex was published by Verso in May 2023.
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Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built on the commodification of creativity and desire, authenticity and intimacy. Our reaction to this should not be moral or political outrage, nor legal regulation or denial, but rather-as Sophia Giovannitti argues here-acceptance, through which we can find a more autonomous way to live.
In this searching and provocative work, drawing on cultural and political theory, the contemporary art world, and the author's own experience as a sex worker and artist trying to make a living, Giovannitti argues that if we delve into our anxieties around art and sex, we can instead find new ways to live and spaces, however small, of freedom. When there is nothing left to protect, she argues, everything is possible.
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A custom fine point felt tipped executive Sharpie pen encased in stainless steel bearing the name of Sophia Giovannitti's lecture series, Does it have a sincere relationship to God?