Bailey Trela is a writer living in New York whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Bailey Trela
Articles by Bailey Trela:
Prophets in the Wilderness: On Utopian Dreaming in the American Midwest
in Issue 96 | Prophecies (Jan 2021)For the majority of my hometown’s inhabitants, history was at once a practicality—drawing tourists and their pocketbooks to the tail-end of Indiana—and a vaguely exotic overlay, one that almost retroactively justified the music festivals and paint-offs and theater projects that otherwise would have seemed hopelessly out of place in New Harmony, whose population, for the past 200 years, has rarely been above 1,000 residents.
The Grotesque, The Digital
in Issue 94 | Generation (Feb 2019)Bailey Trela on the grotesque, David Cronenberg’s abject successes, instagram, “““the gaze”””, self-replication, and museum-going in the 21st century.
Notes on Chance: The Art of Cage and Kushner
in Issue 92 | Credit (Nov 2018)When an artist leaves the shape of their creation up to fate, who gets credit for the work? The person, or the process? The calculus, or the one who applies it?