Bradford Nordeen

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Film and Digital Media

Bradford Nordeen is a writer, curator, and the founder of Dirty Looks Inc. He has written for Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Afterimage, and Butt Magazine and was a 2018 recipient of the Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. His publications include Because Horror (with Johnny Ray Huston), Check Your Vernacular, the Dirty Looks Volume series (editor), and the forthcoming novel Blessed Western. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz, though he lives in Los Angeles.

Research interests: Offline cultures, community organizing, experimental cinema, film festival studies, printed matter, HIV/AIDS, porn studies, utopia, fan cultures , performance studies, contemporary art criticism, avant-garde queer musicology and experimental literature.

Publications

2020

Because Horror (with Johnny Ray Huston), DL Press + Semiotext(e)

2016

THINGS: a queer lineage of graphic art and play [exhibition catalogue], ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archive

2014

Check Your Vernacular, DL Press

2011

#Empire (with Adam Baran), Franklin Street Works Press

Masquerades and Hysteria: The Art and Ephemera of Marco Vassi and the Daughters of Houdini, [exhibition catalogue], [2nd Floor Projects]

2008

Fever Pitch, Free 4 Fags Press

 

Articles / Chapters

2024

'New Utopia and Light Fractures by Luther Price,' Millennium Film Journal

'Hal Fischer at Et al. Etc,' Artforum

'Green is the Brattest Color,' Artforum

'Whiz Bam! The Video Gays that Made Me,' Queer Majority issue XII (guest edited by Bruce LaBruce)

'Slava Mogutin's Sexy Underground Hooliganism,' Queer Majority issue XII 

'Playback Queens with Broken Dreams' + 'Johnny Guitar,' Little Joe: A Book About Queers and Cinema, Mostly

'Going Green,' SLUTS, Dopamine Press / Semiotext(e) (US); Cipher Press (UK)

'The Militant Mother: Media, Memory, Healing,' Praksis (guest edited by Merve Ünsal)

'Living Proof,' X-TRA Online

'LA Fairs Itself,' Artforum

'Bro Vapid,' Artforum

2023

'I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy,' Broadcast, Pioneer Works

2022

'Oral Histories of Queer Resistance,' Cavernous, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

'Rip It Up and Start Again,' Broadcast, Pioneer Works

2021

'Hands On: The Memory and Legacy of Fred Halsted [Blu-ray liner notes],' The Fred Halsted Collection, Altered Innocence

'Cinema's Missing Bodies (interview with Alanna Thain + Dayna McLeod),' Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media

'Four Years in The Back Row,' Mubi

2020

'Witch Baby,' Spectral Transmissions (curated by Donal Mosher + Mike Palmieri), NW Film Center

'Meat Movie,' Screen Slate

'Poster Child,' Lambda Literary

'Love Letters in Blood: On Queer Communion: Ron Athey,’ Los Angeles Review of Books

'Luther Price: From Here to Eternity,’ Frieze

2019

'Love at First Sight: The Brilliant Generosity of Kevin Killian,’ Lambda Literary

'Blood in the Lung: Ron Athey, Cassils and Fanaa Conjure a Ritual Body at the Arizona Desert’s Biosphere 2,’ Frieze

2017

‘Naked Soap Operas: Brontez Purnell,’ Art in America

2015

‘Michael Robinson,’ Little Joe no. 5

‘And I’ve Done it Again: A Look at Grace Jones New Book,’ Lambda Literary

‘Tom of Finland,’ Art in America

‘“Schooled,”’ Animal Shelter

‘A Look at Cult Art World Stars Cookie Mueller and George Kuchar,’ Lambda Literary

‘Beverly Hills John,’ Art in America

2014

‘Paris Is Burning by Lucas Hilderbrand,’ Lambda Literary

‘Bruce Benderson: Against Marriage,’ Lambda Literary

‘Private Dancers: Social Media Platforms and Contemporary Drag Performance,’ Afterimage

2013

‘Werner Schroeter’s Passion Plays,’ [Liner notes] in Der Bomberpilot & Nel Regno di Napoli [DVD] Munich, DE, Edition Filmmuseum 99

‘Sex Tools: New Queer Narratives as Community Action Cinema,’ Afterimage

‘Playback Queens with Broken Dreams,’ Little Joe no. 4

2012

‘Chris Kraus: Summer of Hate (interview),’ Lambda Literary

‘Grace Jones / A One Man Show,’ Little Joe Reader

‘Kevin Killian: The Contingency Approach (interview),’ Lambda Literary

‘The Cinema of Whitney Houston,’ with Kevin Killian, FANZINE

‘RuPual’s Drag Race: Racially Insensitive?’ Huffington Post

2011

‘Top 10 Moving-Image events of 2011,’ FANZINE

‘Forever Flaming: Jack Smith at MOMA,’ The L Magazine

‘Dennis Cooper: Florid Mysteries (interview),’ Lambda Literary

‘Halsted Playing Halsted,’ Art in America

‘Views from the Avant-Garde,’ The L Magazine

‘George Kuchar (1942-2011),’ indieWIRE

‘!Women Art Revolution! - Lynn Hershman Leeson,’ FANZINE

‘The Hollywood Stars of Avant-Garde Cinema,’ The L Magazine

‘Achingly Memorable: Magdalena Montezuma,’ Slant Magazine

‘Johnny Guitar,’ Little Joe no. 2

‘William E. Jones on Finished (Interview),’ Slant Magazine

2010

‘Paul Thek At The Whitney,’ Butt Magazine

‘The Lost films of Charles Ludlam,’ X-TRA

2008

‘Grace Jones does ‘La Vie En Rose,’ Kunsole Songbook and Other Stories, San Francisco Arts Commission

2006

Eaten Out: Queer Cinematic Trends Towards Self Obliteration, Zine

 

Editorial

2019

Dirty Looks Volume 4, DL Press

2018

Dirty Looks Volume 3, DL Press

2017

Dirty Looks Volume 2, DL Press

2016

Dirty Looks Volume 1, Co-edited with Clara López Menéndez, DL Press

2013

Dirty Looks at MoMA: Mining the Collection, a reader, (Co-edited with David Everitt Howe + Karl McCool), DL Press

Last modified: Nov 06, 2024