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Ford Over is cut up and aggregate and mashup: made of language drawn from the multilingual chronicles of Juan Luis (Jean Louis) Berlandier, a Franco-Mexican botanist who traveled through Northern Mexico drawing maps, writing and collecting plants as part of the 1826 Comisión de los Limites.
About the author
JD Pluecker works with language, that is, a material thing, a thing of life and history. Their undisciplinary work inhabits the intersections of writing, history, translation, art, interpreting, bookmaking, queer/trans aesthetics, non-normative poetics, language justice, and cross-border cultural production. They have translated numerous books from the Spanish, including
Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018),
Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016),
Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre (Green Lantern Press, 2021), and forthcoming
Trash by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (Deep Vellum Press, 2023). JD's book of poetry and image,
Ford Over, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press, and in 2019 Lawndale Art Center supported the publication of the artist book,
The Unsettlements: Dad. From 2010-2020, they worked as part of the transdisciplinary collaborative Antena Aire and from 2015-2020 with the local social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. JD edits chapbooks with Ugly Duckling Presse's Señal series, is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant, and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Project Row Houses, and more.
