Words, Words, Words — Reb L Limerick

Words to be heard (videos, performance documentations)

Speak Volume (11:38) My proudest performative intervention. Inside an academic conference room, how can my tone heal the ozone?

Fresh Air For Sure (16:34) A waterfall of words landing on the dance floor. Is our land our land? Love to Orlando.

Inspire Til You Expire (14:00) A 2016 Greatest Hits Album. Thank you for breathing the air!

Words to be read (installations and essays)

Special TV Microwave Computer (Scrolling for a Sign) The side of a cardboard box translated and extrapolated into four scrolling poems. Found footage and found ideas in a vertical loop. At night we scroll vertically on our phones, scrolling for attention, affection, affirmation, and information. The news ticker scrolls horizontally, unfurling the latest tragedy or alert letter by letter. A scroll is an ancient form of preserving and revealing language.

Born to Excessorize a personal essay written in 2019 about excess and accessories, plastic and progeny.

Air Flair fashion magazine, selected pages, 2017

"Air Flair" is a small-batch hand-printed clothing line made to be worn on crowded smoking patios where toxic plastic filters litter the ground. The striking pink "Hospital Gown," listing all diseases caused by cigarettes, and the trendy "Secondhand Smoking Jacket" serve as fulcrums for conversation around pollution of self, community, and earth. Screenprinted on the "Fresh Air Frock" are the words, "we are all breathing the air," an urgent reminder of climate change as well as a positive affirmation of interconnectedness. "Fresh air, for sure."

The Soap Factory's 3x5 Residency Booklet, Contributing Writer, 2016

NO15 Magazine, Arts Editor and Contributing Writer, 2013

Words to be heard (videos, performance documentations)

Words to be read (installations and essays)

Words on paper and cloth (selections from 2013-2017)

Freak Flag exchange, Air Flair fashion magazine, The Soap Factory’s 3x5 Residency Booklet, NO15 Magazine