John Gerrard Archives – Maya B. Kronic

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a recrypted iteration of a philosopher, and is Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism.

Maya has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy.

Their research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.

Available for editorial, proofreading, copy-editing, and translation (FR>EN) work, and commissions. Buy me a coffee.

2016

Model Farm

Catalogue text for John Gerrard: Power Play, Beijing, 2016

Writing

2013

Exercise (Dunhuang)

On John Gerrard’s 2013 simulation work

Writing

2011

Notes on White Coal

Research paper for John Gerrard during the development of his Pulp Press (Kistefos) 2013.

Writing

2011

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Programme notes for the John Gerrard and Wayne McGregor’s Royal Ballet performance Live Fire Exercise

Writing

2011

Synthetic Liter[e]alism

Essay on the minimalism, precisionism, and realism in the work of John Gerrard

Writing

2010

Infinite Freedom Exercise

Unpublished text on John Gerrard’s Infinite Freedom Exercise (Near Abadan, Iran), 2011.

Writing