Imarni Boyer-Nugent is a Nottingham based film and performance artist born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. Alongside her main practice, she is the founder and editor of Femicide Zine, a submission-based publication, rooted in 90s Riot Grrrl culture, intersectional feminism and independent art. Femicide Zine has been featured at various zine fairs, most notably Rough Trade, Bonington Gallery and 180 The Strand. It is also held by multiple Zine libraries internationally, including the Grrrl Zine Library, The Old Waterworks, Southend-On-Sea. She has worked with multiple arts organizations and collectives including Nottingham Contemporary, Foxall Studio, and Flower Shop Collective, Newcastle.
To whom it may concern,
I'm tired of making art for people like you. I spend so much time and effort filming, editing, thinking, performing, staging, and reworking just for you to stare at it slack-jawed with your eyes glazing over. Steam is coming out of your eyes from how hard the cogs in your head are turning to try and conjure up an original, intelligent thought.
"Your work reminds me of X". "This looks like Y". That isn't constructive criticism, they're just empty comments because you have to say something before the sessions ends.
How many times do I have to stand here and explain my work to you? If you don't get it by now, you're never going to get it.
Yours,
IMARNI.
Work featured in: Surface Gallery, The Square Gallery, Flower Shop, Spilt Milk Zine, Pastel Serenity Zine, Dislocated Zine, Flower Shop Zine, Nottingham Contemporary: Response 7, Femicide Zine.