an·a·log gen·er·a·tiv·i·ty : Caballero’s idea that each reading is its own universe, uniquely rooted in place, time and context. Readers and writers construct each other in an endlessly procreative process.
Ropa sucia (The Wash)
Ropa sucia (The Wash) is a limited edition artist book by Ana María Caballero, released in partnership with S/W Ediciones. Each version of Ropa sucia contains a unique set of twelve poems angenerativitywith which to hang them. Each edition also includes a unique digital print. This project combines Caballero’s of analog and machine-driven generativity.
Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem
Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem celebrates the ways in which writers and readers construct each other. Readers give literature life within their minds, honoring words when they make them their own by leaving a mark.
Paperwork
Throughout 2023, Caballero performed her poetry in numerous venues across the world, inviting audience members to write down one-word responses to her verse on sheets of paper. The words they inscribed represent the multivalent emotional reactions that poetry elicits. One audience member left an origami swan. She gathered these slips of paper—these distilled, private moments of connection to performed poetry—and used each word to actuate Paperwork’s compositions, connecting the personal to the universal via the database of our collective unconscious that is AI.
