MEET NUNUM'S CONTRIBUTOR: MAURCIE MOORE

Meet NUNUM's contributor: Maurice Moore

6/7/2021

NUNUM

Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Interview with Maurice Moore

Maurice thank you for this, and for the images. It doesn't happen often but it happened when I saw your work - it was instant - yes NUNUM has to have that on our pages.

So let's jump right into it, what song uplifts you when you're feeling down?

"Love On Top" Beyonce.

Alright, first book you remember picking and reading by yourself?

"Green Eggs and Ham" Book by Dr. Seuss

You Can Be A Man and Have A Baby Feat. Trans Is Beautiful by Maurice Moore

What about the last book you read that made you say damn that was a good book?

"Berger on Drawing" by John Berger

Pen, pencil or phone which one do you reach for when you need to write something down?

Phone

Do you have any go-to writers when you need something to read on holiday?

Octavia E. Butler, Joseph F. Beam

Lets pivot to art, which contemporary artist do you most admire?

Linda Berry

Didn't know her, thank you for the introduction. Is there an artist in your local community that you would recommend people check out?

Ali Fear Eats the Soul by Maurice Moore

DIEGO MARTINEZ-CAMPOS

body ady ady ady by Maurice Moore

Always a treat to learn about new artists outside my own little bubble. Speaking of artists, who has influenced your current artistic direction?

Linda Berry, Marlon Riggs, William Kentridge, mayfield brooks.

What advice would you give someone who is just starting to send their work out to journals?

Please don't ever listen to that fucking voice in your head that says you and/or your work are not good enough to be celebrated.

Who's your favourite superhero?

Ororo Munroe aka Storm

Favourite quote?

“If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” - Zora Neale Hurston

Waali Land by Maurice Moore

Maurice Moore is currently a doctoral Performance Studies Candidate

at the University of California-Davis. His critical essays, fictions, and visual works will/have appeared in Existere Journal, New World Theatre, bozalta Collective, Harbor Review, Rigorous, Wicked Gay Ways, Storm Cellar Journal, Loud and Queer Zine, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Strukturriss Quarterly Journal, HIVES Buzz-Zine, As Loud As It’s Kept Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and Confluence. You can keep up with Maurice on Twitter or his site.

Artist's Statement

Drawing while black is an exploration of sensorial feel/felt lines both in text and performative drawings involving 2D, 3D, 4D, and Speculative fiction(s) art practices. Moreover, the work explores how Black, Indigenous, Queer, and People Of Color (BIQPOC)'s have created a means of survival through visual/performance art, creating a mode(s) of active radical resistance. In my work, the lines created literally intersect, overlap, and make fluid many of the diasporic identities that colonial powers would have me believe are fixed. By doing this work I can reimagine ways to fight anti-blackness, ableism, queer-antagonism, the erasure, and the deafening silences caused by colonial powers. In short, these processes of making renew the vitality of queerness and/or blackness in both my current artistic practice and in my scholarly pursuits.