Artless: Stories 2019–2023

Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless captures the media landscape lived and generated in New York during the past half decade. Since the 2016 publication of her debut novel Surveys, Stagg has positioned herself as an in-demand expert on—and critic of—the psychic experience of self-mythology within the cruelly optimistic metaverse of infinite branding. Part voyeur & part participant, Stagg continues her exploration of the branded identity & its elusive, bottomless desire for authenticity.

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Natasha Stagg is the author of Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 & Surveys: A Novel, both published by Semiotext(e). Her work has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Texte Zur Kunst, n+1, Spike Art, Flash Art, Dazed, V, Vice, 032c, & other publications.