Anne Elizabeth Moore
Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, artist, and the author of the upcoming book, Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, a chronicle of her experiences working with young women in Southeast Asia (Cantankerous Titles, 2011). Her previous books include the critically acclaimed Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft Skull, 2004). Anne exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art and has been the subject of two documentary films. Her ongoing exploration of the international garment trade, Garment Work, will be the focus of a single-person exhibition this summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Author, filmmaker, and cultural critic Jean Kilbourne called Cambodian Grrrl, “A passionate, engaging, heartbreaking, funny, and inspiring book. I want to slip it into every tourist guide to Asia and give a copy to every girl in the world.” "Glynn Washington, Host of NPR's Snap Judgment, says “Anne Elizabeth Moore is the ultimate travel companion. She doesn’t just squeeze us into her luggage—Anne lets readers peer right over her shoulder as she attempts the implausible. Turns out, the implausible is hard, and funny, and tragic, and illuminating, but once you sign up for the journey she never lets you look away (because she never did).” In an early review, the Jacksonville Public Library added, “In a country like Cambodia, where the media is an arm of the government, this work is potentially revolutionary. … 1000000000000000% punk rock.” Her previous book Unmarketable was called “an anti-corporate manifesto with a difference” by Mother Jones and “sharp and valuable muckraking” by Time Out New York.
Anne has recently been offered funding from Arts Network Asia and CEC Artslink to support her international work on issues facing girls in an increasingly globalizing world. Co-publisher and editor of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Anne currently teaches in the Visual Critical Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has mounted three single-person exhibitions of her conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, and her work recently appeared on the radio programSnap Judgment and in the Progressive, Bitch, and Truthout. She has exhibited work at Meta-House in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany; the Center for Endless Progress in Berlin, Germany; Book and Paper Center for the Arts in Chicago; Sea and Space in LA; The Armory in New York City; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. She has written forThe Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, andTin House, and her essays have twice made the Best American Non-Required Reading Notables Lists.Her work with young women in Southeast Asia was recently featured in Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, and Print magazines, and on GritTV, Art21, and NPR’s Worldview.
A dynamic and engaging speaker on issues of freedom of expression and social justice under globalization, Anne has spoken at hundreds of college campuses, arts venues, conferences, and independent spaces. Cambodian Grrrl will be the first in a series of four volumes on independent culture, globalization, and women's rights in Southeast Asia.
What People Are Saying
“An intelligent, funny, and frequently dispiriting study….that everyone who cares about any culture should read.” —Bitch Magazine
“Conversational, intellectually curious, and charmingly ragged, an anti-corporate manifesto with a difference: It exudes raw coolness.” —Mother Jones
“Five stars.” —Time Out Chicago
“Offers something distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism: a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist culture.” —Los Angeles Times
“Sharp and valuable muckraking.” —Time Out New York
