wye@nor.la
WYE CODAY
Wyatt Coday, THE UGLIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, 2023. Digital video excerpt.
Wye Coday is intersex and autistic. She lives between Los Angeles and Chicago, where she is a practicing financial dominatrix.
As NOR RESEARCH STUDIO, the design research studio she founded in 2017 with Evan Kleekamp (1992-2022), Coday develops didactic media, exhibitions, publications, and other forms of intellectual property for artists, nonprofits, and creative businesses.
Coday describes her practice as "research performance" and offers her labor as a “unique instance of Black melancholy." Her work spans legal interventions, essays and contemporary folk tales, unorthodox disability accommodations, lecture-performances, and photography.
In 2020, Coday was named as a columnist-in-residence at Open Space, SFMOMA's online writing platform. In 2021, Coday received an emerging artist grant from the California Arts Council and published 4 INSTRUMENTS, an excerpt from her in-progress novella, with Apogee Graphics. Nightboat Books anthologized another excerpt in WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS (2021). In 2023, Dirt published RESEARCH, a third installment of the novella.
Her writing has appeared in Into, The Avery Review, Open Space (SFMOMA), X-TRA, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her sculpture and photography were included in Red Wedding at Ruschman in Chicago.
Her research interests include: disability, psychoanalysis, common law, transitive painting, the lecture-performance, and kitty cats.
SUGGESTED READING
"Divergence from the Norm: Commodity Impairment in Emily Barker’s Built to Scale," published by The Avery Review, 2020. [complete]
"Some Trees," published by X-TRA Quarterly Arts Journal, 2019. [complete]
"The Mole and The Hyena," published by Open Space (SFMOMA), 2019. [complete]
"Index," included in Let Me Be An Object That Screams, edited by Matt Morris, published by University of Illinois-Chicago Press, 2017. [exerpt] [complete]
wye@nor.la
WYE CODAY
Wyatt Coday, THE UGLIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, 2023. Digital video excerpt.
Wye Coday is intersex and autistic. She lives between Los Angeles and Chicago, where she is a practicing financial dominatrix.
As NOR RESEARCH STUDIO, the design research studio she founded in 2017 with Evan Kleekamp (1992-2022), Coday develops didactic media, exhibitions, publications, and other forms of intellectual property for artists, nonprofits, and creative businesses.
Coday describes her practice as "research performance" and offers her labor as a “unique instance of Black melancholy." Her work spans legal interventions, essays and contemporary folk tales, unorthodox disability accommodations, lecture-performances, and photography.
In 2020, Coday was named as a columnist-in-residence at Open Space, SFMOMA's online writing platform. In 2021, Coday received an emerging artist grant from the California Arts Council and published 4 INSTRUMENTS, an excerpt from her in-progress novella, with Apogee Graphics. Nightboat Books anthologized another excerpt in WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS (2021). In 2023, Dirt published RESEARCH, a third installment of the novella.
Her writing has appeared in Into, The Avery Review, Open Space (SFMOMA), X-TRA, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her sculpture and photography were included in Red Wedding at Ruschman in Chicago.
Her research interests include: disability, psychoanalysis, common law, transitive painting, the lecture-performance, and kitty cats.
SUGGESTED READING
"Divergence from the Norm: Commodity Impairment in Emily Barker’s Built to Scale," published by The Avery Review, 2020. [complete]
"Some Trees," published by X-TRA Quarterly Arts Journal, 2019. [complete]
"The Mole and The Hyena," published by Open Space (SFMOMA), 2019. [complete]
"Index," included in Let Me Be An Object That Screams, edited by Matt Morris, published by University of Illinois-Chicago Press, 2017. [exerpt] [complete]