Quinn Latimer

Author

Quinn Latimer is a poet, critic, editor, and occasional curator.

Her books include Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (2017), Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (2013), Film as a Form of Writing: Quinn Latimer Talks to Akram Zaatari (2013), and Rumored Animals (2012). Her writings have appeared widely in Artforum, The Paris Review, The White Review, and Texte zur Kunst, and in many critical anthologies and artist monographs. She was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14, in Athens and Kassel, and is the editor and coeditor of numerous books, including SIREN (some poetics) (2024), Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology (2021), Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror (2019), and The documenta 14 Reader (2017). She recently curated the exhibition SIREN (some poetics), which explored technologies of myth and mouth, earth and alarm, at Amant, New York, and Perpetual Language: Patricia L. Boyd and Na Mira, made under the signs and spirits of Roland Barthes and Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, at Croy Nielsen, in Vienna. She is Head of the MA at the Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK FHNW Basel, where she is also a PhD candidate writing on the poetics of exposure and fictions of the real. She is at work on a novel.