“Yeah, I’ve seen you around. But when you’ve been here as long as I have, it’s not just you, it’s years of yous, or very-much-like-yous. This city breeds yous: hey yous, me and yous, sick of yous, fuck yous. As I’m sure you can understand, I gave up on names a long time ago.”
Author: spectralwp
Interview: “The Undertaker: SWANS’ Michael Gira”
“A user had commented: ‘You’re not watching music, you’re watching an exorcism. We’re all lucky Michael Gira had musical talent or else he’d probably be doing serial killings.'”
Artnet: “A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns: Action Movie”
“A dark-haired witch in metallic body paint and crotchless panties climbs into a dungeon to the sounds of eerie minimal music.”
Art in America: “Kim Gordon: Guitars, Guns, Goo”
“I think women are natural anarchists because you’re always operating in a male framework.”
Art in America: “Bjarne Melgaard: Painter as Pig, Painting as Prostitute”
“I think it is interesting how you corrupt your own work, in the sense of how you also corrupt yourself.”
Art in America: “Eileen Myles”
“There was a character and that was me. And you figured out how to get your part bigger.”
Art in America: “Performing is Storytelling: Q+A with Chris Kraus”
“A film is meant to be something provocative, something hurled into the culture.”
Art in America: “Words are People: Q+A with Karl Holmqvist”
“I was reading poetry as a form of visual art: as a form of invisible visual art, or as a form of Everyman’s visual art.”
Artforum: “Rita Ackermann”
“I want to show such a duality in its most raw form–with a fragility that triggers aggression.”
Art in America: “The Contagious Retrospective: Q+A with Bernadette Corporation”
“We don’t try to fortify ourselves or our positions.”