Lyónn Wolf
De-production – First Trimester Mourning Sickness

Over the past decade Lyónn Wolf has developed an interdisciplinary practice, oscillating between installation, performance, and experimental workshop formats. Key to their approach has been an ongoing practice of DIY publishing, often done collectively, to traverse queer economies and spatial politics, the lived present and imagined futures. Incorporating auto-fiction and anecdote, Wolf engages a tradition of queer-transfeminist working class vernacular and ethics, finding forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera to pose questions about value, accumulation, and authorship that, in their own words, ‘posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist and erupt anywhere and at any time.’

De-production – First Trimester Mourning Sickness is a limited edition zine crafted as part of Wolf’s 2024 residency at Flat Time House, London. As a way of sharing work in progress, Wolf invited collaborators Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Linda Stupart and Raju Rage to respond to bring states of transformation, popular science fiction and family abolition into what the artist describes as a ‘weird communion’. The zine also includes a contribution from artist, academic, activist, and curator Promona Sengupta.

The publication is developed through a partnership between Flat Time House and Askeaton Contemporary Arts, and leads up to Wolf’s first UK solo exhibition in late 2025. A limited number of copies are available to purchase online: https://flattimeho.org.uk/projects/publications/de-production-first-trimester-mourning-sickness/