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television as a medium, Durbin explores an uncanny space of attachments that reflects a cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal, tender, and sorrowful." Rich Smith from the
Stranger writes: "Though the swift-moving spectacle of the television show invites viewers to cast easy judgment on these hoarders, Durbin employs poetry's slower speed to show a more complicated picture. Instead of using Tara's story to make us feel better about ourselves for not being hoarders, she indicts aspects of American culture we all participate in—religion, capitalism—and reveals our complicity, all while dropping a lot of sight gags in the process." Alyse Burnside writes in the Atlantic: "Durbin's work has what the A&E show lacks: a capacious sense of humanity, a nuanced understanding of how consumerism might shape compulsions, and a deeply expressed empathy for the subtleties of life under capitalism...In this reinvention, each character's own narration takes precedence over the more salacious details of their disorder, bringing us into their personal, sometimes painful, worlds. Each poem consists of connected fragments, little piles. Each stanza reads like a conversation between the person and their stuff...The poems themselves are cluttered, yet their vibrancy is hard to overstate. Durbin astutely marries content and meaning, overwhelming the reader while dialing into our internal monstrous consumer."
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explored gender and the selfie phenomenon. The performance took place "IRL," in a public setting such as a mall or art fair, and online, simultaneously. Durbin called it "passive aggressive performance art," because the performers ignored the audience, taking selfies constantly and uploading them to
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an interactive iPad app and artist's book that is an exploration and celebration of the history and future of the book. The app blends ancient book technology such as cuneiform tablets with modern references such as emojis. Durbin told Vice's
Creator's Project that ABRA is: "a touch-based 'magical
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Durbin's performance/video art work "Unfriend Me Now!" debuted at Spring Break Art Fair in Los
Angeles in 2018. Taking inspiration from Facebook's role in increasing polarization, it features a character called Facebook Clown, who is a representation of "Facebook becoming flesh." Durbin claims that
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and deals with the topics of consumerism, environmentalism, and trauma. According to the book's description, Hoarders is "written in a Mad Lib-style language...wherein each poem is a portrait of a person and the objects they hoard, from
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poetry instrument/spellbook' that creates a 'new way for regular people and poets alike to create and enjoy poetry in the era of the
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