Shanekia McIntosh

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	<title>Shanekia McIntosh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>&#38;nbsp; Poetry&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;Installation&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Select&#38;nbsp;Writings&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;Select Performances&#60;img width="4181" height="6271" width_o="4181" height_o="6271" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa7b83605182611265ec7d55041eae835f4907d652b07bf04917a5a88de5721e/DEFONTE_McINTOSH_2025_DSF0167.jpg" data-mid="234287780" border="0" data-scale="35" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa7b83605182611265ec7d55041eae835f4907d652b07bf04917a5a88de5721e/DEFONTE_McINTOSH_2025_DSF0167.jpg" /&#62;
&#38;nbsp;photograph by Christian DeFonte
Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist who works with poetry and text in performance, public installation, and signage based works. Her conceptual and research driven practice explores consumption, memory, dislocation, and myth building themes.

Based in the Hudson Valley, McIntosh’s work embraces the quiet and the everyday, a line of poetry glimpsed while driving, a phrase caught in passing. Her text-based installations draw from the layered history, memory, and culture of each place she engages with. She invites moments for pause and subtle disruption by placing works in unexpected public spaces, shuttered theaters, strip malls, and train stations. In rural and small town settings, where visual noise is less constant than in major cities, these works resonate by catching viewers off guard and shifting their sense of place.
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Her work has been presented at institutions including the New Museum, Second Ward Foundation, Charim, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Hudson Hall, and New York Live Arts. She is the author of the chapbook Spiral as Ritual (Topos Press) and the full-length poetry collection A New Sense of Luxury (Eureka! Press). McIntosh has been an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn and is the inaugural recipient of the Spark of Hudson Foundation Creative Arts Fellowship. She is also a contributing writer for Elephant Magazine.&#60;img width="732" height="581" width_o="732" height_o="581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62d8422c330aa74daa103c2d48917ea08db23cd951dee4de51da8a5658d5117a/ShanekiaMcIntosh_Soundscape23.jpg" data-mid="234299057" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/732/i/62d8422c330aa74daa103c2d48917ea08db23cd951dee4de51da8a5658d5117a/ShanekiaMcIntosh_Soundscape23.jpg" /&#62;Writer’s in the rafters, Basilica Soundscape, 2023

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		<description>Published Works&#38;nbsp;Shanekia McIntosh's published poetry books explore consumption, memory, and cultural language through experimental form and typographic voice.


A New Sense of LuxuryThis collection of poems, written primarily from 2019–2023, is restructured to be read as one long poem. Rather than a group of individual pieces, it explores the fetishization of novelty, questioning how digital consumption shapes storytelling and language and fractures social realities.

It introduces SHANNY typography from public installations into book form, carving out a space to inject personhood and differentiate the "narrator" from the poet. A New Sense of Luxury, a semantic study, takes on multiple narrators, from mimicking ad-copy, spam, and scam bots, emerging internet linguistics as play with the cultural shifts of language and reduction of meaning to further critiques of consumption and isolation. 
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Published by Eureka! Press April, 2025
111 pagesCover design: Furqan Jawed 
&#38;nbsp;“Shanekia McIntosh’s A New Sense of Luxury is a lyric epic of presence, where being here and now is too often a choice between only “Pleasurescrolling./Doomscrolling.”—thus, not enough and too much at the same time. 21st-century luxury is such a muchness as that, up in imperial prolapse, what’s luxe ain’t nothing if the good feeling doesn’t cost someone some blood. Sometimes, the buyer’s. McIntosh spurns, reels, wants, and winces in a tableau of cramped plentitude and roomy scarcity, taking inventory. This book tells us what’s extra and what’s missing.”&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; -Douglas Kearney

STOCKISTS: Spotty Dog Books &#38;amp; Ale (Hudson, NY)Create Council On The Arts (Catskill, NY)Topos Too Bookstore (Ridgewood, NY)Artbook@ MoMA PS1 Bookstore

Spiral as Ritual&#38;nbsp;Spiral began taking form in the fall of 2013. Through multiple readings and performances from 2015-2018, the poems shifted. The chapbook reflects the mania of a trauma response, embodying the "othering" of identity politics with a research and philosophical ethos. These poems have a variety of themes such as Grooming, religion," gentiftifaction, and climate crisis, particularly with interest in climate refugees. As well as the social listening and isolation caused by social media. There are poems written for Rachel Jeanteal and Sandra Bland, as well as from interviews McIntosh conducted with older black women and immigrant Bangladeshi women in hercommunity. 

Featuring poetry from performances: Call Me Ishmael (2018),  Touched (2017), and Tender Rage (2016). 

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Published by Topos Press, 2021Second edition, 2022&#38;nbsp;
41 pagesCover: “From afar”, Tschabala Self 

"Questioning the framework of ailed and failing social architecture, Spiral as Ritual moves with the fury of crashing waves, urgency for air and for answers. Shanekia McIntosh plunges forth, fast-punching and clear in her demand for real and compassionate resolutions—not empty gestures—asking out loud and inwardly, equally, daringly; A groundswell needed / Rejecting &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; complacency."—S*an D. Henry-Smith

"Spiral as Ritual is a meditation in the way that one might think of a hurricane—sustained winds whorled around the no-place of an eye or an ‘I’ (in absentia). McIntosh identifies the formation of an individuated subject as an expression of integrating a world dominated by racist settler-colonial conditions, present and past, which produce in their wake collateral destruction.”—Joey de Jesus

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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>With institutional support from Albany Center Gallery, CollarWorks, Gallery 495, CREATE Council on the Arts, and Chatham PS1, McIntosh has activated town blocks with dispersed poems, used her handwriting on marquees, and collaborated with curators to reimagine signage as poetic infrastructure. Her approach resists spectacle, instead prioritizing intimacy, accessibility, and resonance; an ethos she brings to each new site, whether in upstate New York or beyond.
Spiral As Ritual 0001, 2020
 Furniture Plus Fairview Ave., Hudson, NY&#38;nbsp;
Video: LED signage on a strip mall at dusk
A public text installation using LED signage across a suburban strip mall in Hudson, NY. Partnered with curator Aaron Levi Garvey as part of the Hudson Eye Festival, the piece explored consumption, disillusionment, and pandemic-era isolation themes. Strip malls—symbols of passivity and transition—became sites of subtle interruption. Designed for viewers passing by in cars, the work considered what happens when language meets routine and meaning is absorbed slowly, almost by accident.
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‘Soft Urges’
Hudson Amtrak Station, January-March 2024
 presented by CREATE Council on the ArtsSlideshow: Works on paper, sculptures, and wall installation

Soft Urges is a collection of paper-based works that explore nostalgia, habit, and the quiet persistence of time. Inspired by decaying city posters and the layering of public ephemera, the series meditates on emotional, physical, and temporal transitions.

The wall works (slow kinks and slow fade) use layered paper and obscured poetry to edit through concealment. Meaning emerges through erasure, each surface shaped by time and its material history. These pieces were a foundation for Keep Digging, a maximalist hanging sculpture of 128 paper clay rings arranged like a charm necklace. The rings echo gumball machine trinkets and reflect a longing for the past, a fascination with objects, and the rituals of accumulation.

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Flow, 2023
Catskill, New York
Dual installation&#38;nbsp;
Presented by Gallery 495 &#38;amp; Catskill Movie Theater&#38;nbsp;

Images:&#38;nbsp;Hand-painted acrylic letters on plastic and window vinyl

Gallery 495 commissioned Flow, a two-part public poem installed across Main Street in Catskill, NY. My full-length poem was broken into stanzas and presented on two ends of town—one handwritten on the shuttered marquee of the Catskill Movie Theater, the other across the windows of the newly opening gallery. Each site activated a different layer of local history: the long-dormant theater, central to Catskill’s collective memory; the gallery, a regeneration signal. Together, the work invited viewers to experience the town as a living poem unfolding between the past and the future.
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Curated by Jenni Crain&#38;nbsp;
Image: Vinyl text installation
Initially exhibited at Charim Schleifmuhlgasse in Vienna, Austria, curated by Jenni Crain, and remounted in 2022 at Gordon Robichaux in New York City. This work was presented alongside artists Patricia L. Boyd, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Taylor Davis, Masao Gozu, Dan Graham, and Park McArthur.


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Notes On The Sky, 2021
Video installation — digital video and audio files
Presented at Baba Yaga Gallery in Hudson, NY, this video installation explored atmosphere and sonic memory through layered digital footage and sound. The exhibition also featured works by Elbert Perez and Sean Desiree.


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Untitled (Albany Theater Series), 2021

The Palace Theater, Albany, NY — March–April 2021

Presented by Albany Center Gallery and CollarWorksVideo: LED sign


Madison Theater, Albany, NY — March–April 2021
Presented by Albany Center Gallery and CollarWorks

Image: Text installation- vinyl lettering on marquee sign
A poem was installed in separate historic theaters, designed to act as a call and response. Upon entering Albany from the thruway, the viewer encountered the first verse and a reprise five blocks later—creating an echo across the commute. 


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Untitled (Takk House Marquee), 2021&#38;nbsp;
Takk House, Troy, NY January 29–31, 2021
Presented by CollarWorks Gallery for ProjectxProjectxProject
Video and Image: theater marquee text installation
A temporary text installation using the venue’s marquee to present poetry

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A Poem, 2021
Images: Vinyl panels on storefront window
The 405 Project, Hudson, NY
January–April 2021
A Poem is a site-specific installation that adapts two poems into large-scale vinyl texts across storefront windows. Created during the pandemic, It examines ritual, repetition, and rupture, using poetic language to disrupt the loop of everyday isolation. Inspired by dreams and cultural symbolism, the piece invites collective reflection in public space.


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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:31:45 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Shanekia McIntosh</dc:creator>

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		<description>select performancesShanekia McIntosh’s research driven performance work, heavily influenced by Fluxus, blends poetry, text, sculpture, and sound design to create disruptive interpretations of her poetry, thereby creating new contexts. 


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Call Me Ishmael: A Story of Exploitation, 2019
Commissioned by Hudson Hall in honor of the 200th Anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth in New York. Performed at Second Ward Foundation. &#38;nbsp;

Expanding on the narrative themes of Moby Dick and the start of modern environmentalism, Call Me Ishmael is a collaborative performance piece utilizing poetry, video, and sound. This one-woman performance uncovers a historical thread connecting the brutality of the whaling industry, the black migration experience, and the birth of the Save the Whales movement, giving voice to the stories from the frontline of modern-day environmental conditions—those of exploitation, disenfranchisement, and convenience.Sound Design by Chris Garneau, accompaniment by Nkoula Badilia, Movement by Davon Rainey, and visuals by Rebecca Borrer.


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Limited Edition Broadsheet for Call Me Ishmael&#38;nbsp;


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Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema: A Night of Neo-Benshi, 2019Curated by the Flow Chart Foundation
Commissioned poem read to 2001: A Space Odyssey 


The Flow Chart Foundation is dedicated to exploring the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of renowned American poet, John Ashbery.&#38;nbsp;Inspired by “Benshi,” the Japanese performers who provided live narration and cultural translation for audiences in the silent film era, neo-benshi artists take scenes from popular film or television and replace the sound with their own live spoken works. The result is a new kind of multi-media happening that has taken the experimental performance world by storm.


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RAGGA NYC: All the threatened and delicious things joining one another
New Museum&#38;nbsp;
Touched, 2017
 Commissioned poem and performance with musical accompaniment by Eliza Douglass &#38;amp; Mounanou Badila 
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Portland Insitute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, 2016&#38;nbsp;


Tender Reading @ PNCA 511 Gallery&#38;nbsp;
Exploring complex realities of postmodern womanhood through prose and sculpure. &#38;nbsp;


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		<title>select writings</title>
				
		<link>https://shanekiamcintosh.com/select-writings</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:36:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Shanekia McIntosh</dc:creator>

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		<description>Select writings of Shanekia McIntosh that are readily available, featuring essays, interviews, poetry, and musings on the poetics of everyday life and mechanisms of praxis. More coming soon.

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Long Phone Call with Lyle Ashton Harris

“Every Version of it Tore Me Apart”: Zia Anger on Her New Movie ‘My First Film’

How Mutual Aid Network ‘Public Assistants’ Are Challenging the Politics of Respectability&#38;nbsp;
A Language for Intimacy 

Acorn In Earthseed

Abdu Ali: The Fredom Fighter

poetry:&#38;nbsp;chronogram,&#38;nbsp;apogee journal ,the tenth magazine


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