ABC ISSUE NO. 10:
it doesn't get any better than this
by Shana Agid
published by Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2010
6.25 x 9.25"
24 pages
letterpressed cover, offset interior.
numbered edition of 750 copies.

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It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This is a project in 3 parts: a book, an installation, and a series of stand alone prints. The first two combine text and images to tell a story of relationship to family history, national pasts, the artist’s transgender identity, and the liberal discourse on improvement. The print series (coming soon) works to convey these ideas without text. The project in all its forms seeks to disrupt and question the trajectory of progress central to the mythology of the United States and to inter-generational desires for getting “better.”

Shana Agid is a visual artist, activist, and cultural critic. Her work challenges ideas of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-Civil Rights Era United States and reflects an investment in building new language to address new ideas and possibilities for undoing relationships of power in the 21st century. Her visual art has been shown at The New York Center for Book Arts and Southern Exposure and is in the collections of the Walker Art Center and the University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California libraries’ special collections. Agid has given talks on transgender representation and deconstructing “hate crime” in queer politics at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, Yale University, and Oberlin College. She is also a long-time member of Critical Resistance, a grassroots organization fighting the use of the prison industrial complex to address social problems.