Shanekia McIntosh
A New Sense of Luxury

A New Sense of Luxury is the first full-length collection from poet & artist, Shanekia McIntosh.

“Shanekia Mcintosh’s A New Sense of Luxury is a lyric epic of presence, where being here and now is too often a choice between only Pleasurescrolling./Doomscrolling. - thus, not enough and too much at the same time. 21st-century luxury is such a muchness as that; up in imperial prolapse, what’s luxe ain’t nothing if the good feeling doesn’t cost someone some blood. Sometimes, the buyer’s. McIntosh spurns, reels, wants and winces in a tableau of cramped plentitude and roomy scarcity, taking inventory. This book tells us what’s extra and what’s missing.” - Douglas Kearney

Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist, with her work rooted in poetry, performance and installation. Her work is an exploration of memory and archives, guided by an insatiable curiosity and interest in philosophy and history, McIntosh uses her work to explore themes of time, dislocation, trauma, climate, passivity and action and connectivity through the lens of digital culture probing at the stories we tell ourselves and interrogating at who gets to tell them. In 2021, she released her debut chapbook, Spiral as Ritual, published by Topos Press.

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 is carrying the book in conjunction with a reading program for the current exhibition at MoMA PS1 “DON CHRISTIAN JONES: The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go”. The program features Martine Gutierrez, Morgan Bassichis, and Shanekia McIntosh.

Eureka! Press
5x8 inches | 111 Pages | Digital Print |Letterpress Cover | Perfect Bound | First Edition of 400
$17.99