The second issue of the Erotic Review is nearly 80 per cent by women: we have four poets, four artists and three works in translation, amongst other exceptional work.
Join us for the launch of the second issue of Erotic Review. Featuring a conversation led by deputy editor Saskia Vogel with Frith Kerr (designer and art director), Enuma Okoro (guest art curator, columnist and curator) and Yulia Mahr (artist); a presentation by Jessica Stoya, exploring sex work and spirituality and a screening of Brian Lin reading “I, Supernova” his ode to Beyonce. The evening will be framed by sound artist, Lum Tin Wing.
FRITH KERR founded Studio Frith in 2009. They are “the go to graphic designer for creative clients”—The New York Times. The studio produces acclaimed work for some of the world’s leading brands, cultural institutions and artists.
BRIAN LIN has completed his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. His work can be found in Electric Literature, The Offing, The Rumpus, The Margins and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Brian is working on a book of linked essays and seeking representation for a novel.
YULIA MAHR is a Hungarian-born British visual artist. She recently presented a solo show of new works in Berlin at Whermuehle in 2024.
ENUMA OKORO is a Nigerian-American writer, speaker, curator, theorist and facilitator. She is a weekend columnist for the FT where she writes, ‘The Art of Life’ about the intersection of art, culture, philosophy, ecology, contemplative-spirituality, and how we live. She has written and edited four books, her fiction and poetry are published in anthologies, and her essays and articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Aeon, Vogue, The Cut, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, NYU Washington Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and more. She is the curator of the recent group exhibition, “The Flesh of the Earth,” at Hauser & Wirth gallery in Chelsea, New York. Learn more at www.enumaokoro.com
JESSICA STOYA began performing in adult films in 2006, began writing about the adult industry and sexuality in 2012, and began directing adult films in 2014. She lives in Belgrade, where she practises intimacy coaching and – occasionally – art.
SASKIA VOGEL has just been longlisted for the National Book Award 2024 for her translation from the Swedish of Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson. She is deputy editor of the Erotic Review. She is a writer and translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books. Her novel Permission was published in five languages. She is a recipient of the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.
LUM TIN WING (she/they) is an experimental sound artist who works with live movement, vocals, sampling, field recordings and video.
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