TALKER issue #9 — Clifford Owens Activism and was elected to the

and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021

is what becomes physical and real

looks at the writer's Cypriot/British mixed heritage

eyes wide open kind of love

Marshall Jefferson

TALKER issue #9 — Clifford Owens Activism and was elected to theTALKER is an interview zine about performance. Issue #9 is a conversation with artist Clifford Owens. He is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his work focuses on the body in relation to the power dynamics of race, masculinity, class and the fragility of social structures. It also closely examines the significance of photography in performance making and its histories. His project Anthology responds to the absence of a performance history that