Juliana Huxtable on the Five Works That Shaped Her Practice
Singular in her approach to art and music, Juliana Huxtable is a very contemporary polymath. As she begins her Somerset House Studios x Goethe-Institut London digital residency from her home in Berlin, we invited her to share with us the five most important works that influenced and shaped her practice.
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![Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie © Paul B. Preciado Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie](/resources/files/jpg918/paul-b.-preciado-testo-junkie.jpg)
"Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie is the single most illuminating, paradigm-shifting and totalising take on the evolution of power, capital and their permutations of the past 10+ years."
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![Artwork of Emory Douglas © Emory Douglas Artwork of Emory Douglas](/resources/files/jpg918/emory-douglas.jpg)
"The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas – never sacrificing nuance or beauty for political urgency, Emory Douglas has long been a key influence in my visual work."
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![Christian Death: Only Theatre of Pain © Christian Death Christian Death: Only Theatre of Pain](/resources/files/jpg918/christian-death-only-theatre-of-pain.jpg)
"One of my favourite albums of all time, Christian Death's Only Theatre of Pain is at the same time romantic, camp, poeti-dada and gothic with punk sonics, Only Theatre of Pain is poetry and sonic aggressive, sonic whimsy in record form."
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![Gulliver's Travels (miniseries, 1996) Gulliver's Travels (miniseries, 1996)](/resources/files/jpg918/gullivers-travels-1996.jpg)
"The 1996 Gulliver's Travels miniseries – the aesthetic of multiculturalism meets period piece representation meets high budget public television fantasy."