“Back to the 1st Person: I’d even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I’d chosen film and theater, two artforms built entirely on collisions, that only reach their meanings through collision, because I couldn’t ever believe in the integrity/supremacy of the 1st Person (my own). That in order to write 1st Person narrative there needs to be a fixed self or persona and by refusing to believe in this I was merging with the fragmented reality of the time. But now I think okay, that’s right, there’s no fixed point of self but it exists & by writing you can somehow chart that movement. That maybe 1st Person writing’s just as fragmentary as more a-personal collage, it’s just more serious: bringing change & fragmentation closer, bringing it down to where you really are.” WritingSelfRealityFirst Person Narrative Book:I Love Dick Source: I Love Dick
“Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.” WritingPersonsArtStillsWholeChanceFailingArt IsWork OutExhibitsArtifacts Book:Aliens & anorexia Source: Aliens & anorexia
“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.” ThinkingWorldWritingSelfEnoughFactsSeemsCausesSilenceTalkingWrittenHolyFemaleMovedGenderRevolutionaryDestructiveSheerRepressionFlipParadoxicalInexplicableSelf DestructiveIrrepressible Author:Chris Kraus
