![]() ![]() In Working Girl Sophia Giovannitti considers the material and metaphorical overlap between the sexual and artistic marketplaces Josephine Houman, ![]() She invites us to be more than voyeurs, and to think with her what is at stake in the art of sex and the sex of art McKenzie Wark, author of Capital is Dead Working Girl documents Giovannitti's critical and creative interventions into this fraught and fascinating zone. And later, as you begin to release all your outdated beliefs, you then realize Working Girl completely turned out in the best way possible: you too can be the art object that verbs Tourmaline, artistīetween the sex worker and art worker is a tension that defines the contemporary commodification of bodies, genders, time and desires. Filled with clarity and a generous spirit, Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl is a singular sensation you immediately feel the power of while reading. Sarah Michelson, artistĪn art object that also verbs in the most pleasurable way possible. It's fresh, exacting, and spaciously precisely unfettered. Working Girl is fascinating in its specificity - the product of Giovannitti's lived experience in a particular niche of both industries - and through this comes a treatise that is both hopeful and new. In Giovannitti's informed and elegant analysis, sex and art come soaked in capitalist relations, their potential for holiness no barrier to the all-encompassing reach of commodification. Highly original and unnervingly smart, Working Girl strips bare the worlds of art work and sex work, revealing unlikely parallels. ![]()
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