Nothing Lower than I

Xandra Ibarra animates the figure of the zombie with text from Slave Sonnets (1984), a the poetry book written by artist and "super masochist" Bob Flanagan.* The short multi-channel video features a trio of zombies that carry flowers, express their condition of “bottomhood” in their own tongue, and maintain a slow togetherness on the sunny seaside cliffs of the Marin Headlands.