Culture & Ideas

Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre.

Featuring curatorial texts by Elyse Goldfinch and Jessica Clark, alongside writings from Barbara Creed, Kier-La Janisse, Lisa Fuller and Alison Peirse.

Artists featured in the exhibition and book include Clare Milledge, Cybele Cox, Heather B Swann, Jemima Lucas, Julia Robinson, Karla Dickens, Kellie Wells, Lonnie Hutchinson, Louise Bourgeois, Maria Kozic, Marianna Simnett, Mia Boe, Minyoung Kim, Naomi Blacklock, Naomi Kantjuriny,  SJ Norman, Suzan Pitt, Tracey Moffatt and Zamara Zamara.

The exhibition crosses the artificial parameters of horror in the everyday, as something that exists as part of society but also from outside of it.  Culminating in a potent synthesis of dread, camp, humour and catharsis, it challenges the traditional narratives and assumed boundaries of the body, gender, the self and the ‘other’.