Alea Coble is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Coble uses film-based photography, analog drawing, live performance, and print-making techniques to examine the histories of visceral rhetoric and witness testimony. By queering the carrying capacity of experimental poetic forms through play, absurdity, and humor, they defamiliarize and interrogate the hierarchies of official language that determine what evidence may be considered admissible in the cultural production of trauma narratives, especially in Southern Appalachia.
Their current projects are focused on the concept of autonomy over legibility, opacity as a form of care, and poetry as resistance.
Coble considers one’s private suffering an inherently gendered and politically embodied struggle with hegemonic powers enabled by rape culture.
How material histories can orient us toward queer futures?
All images are property of the artist unless otherwise specifiedContact: alea.makes@gmail.com
Instagram: @aint_granny