Homophonia A Ministry of Public Works Project “Edifying Sappho and Socrates”
Homophonia A Ministry of Public Works Project “Edifying Sappho and Socrates”
Kay Rosen
Homophonia A Ministry of Public Works Project “Edifying Sappho and Socrates”
1989/1998
Handout for "Edifying Sappho and Socrates," an exhibition for an international gay + lesbian monument. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. A ministry of Public works project curated by Rafael von Uslar.
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Image/paper size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Printed “Kay Rosen, Homophonia, 1989/1998” lower right
(Inventory #33064)
“Homophonia” is a list of words identified by the artist that each contain a pair of identical looking and sounding letters, homophonic in other words. Just one letter away from homophobia, “Homophonia” is a verbal metaphor and short cut for the larger society, demonstrating the importance of like members to structure and meaning.
It has been distributed as a handout in many venues, bookended between “The Center Show” in 1989 at The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York City, and “Once Upon a Time and Now” in 2015 at The LGBT Community Center, New York.