Unbidden Tongues #8: Feelers by Alexis Hunter

Description

Unbidden Tongues #8: Feelers brings together three photographic series by artist and activist Alexis Hunter. In a storyboard-like fashion, her ‘photo narrative sequences’ forensically detail her manhandling of artefacts of patriarchal oppression through the caressing touch of an array of characters: the Marxist’s wife, an interventionist secretary and a manicured mechanic. Born in New Zealand, Hunter moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 where, at the age of twenty-four, she joined the Women’s Workshop of the Artists Union and invested devotedly in feminist organising alongside her artistic practice.

Since its beginnings in 2020, Unbidden Tongues has published previously produced work by cultural practitioners busy with questions surrounding civility and civic life—particularly in relation to language and its administration. Each title is printed in black-and-white and made with the intention to keep production efforts low, easily reproducible and financially sustainable, so as to contribute as effectively as possible to a wider circulation of the work. Unbidden Tongues is edited by Isabelle Sully and the series is designed by Matt Hinkley.