Preface to Writings and Interviews/Collaborative Conversations
Discovering the writer I wanted to be:
The Land Where You Wanted to Be: Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and 17-year-old Me
My first article as an “art writer” was not about art but about multiple personality disorder— (now called dissociative disorder), postmodernism, and lobotomy. Go figure!! It was 1989, the last gasp of the 1980s.
It is why it is best to think of me as a writer who writes about art, not as an art writer.
This solemn photograph was taken by Timothy Greenfield Sanders for my Artforum bio in the early 90s.
I think this is preferable.
BOOKS/ANTHOLOGIZED ESSAYS AND CONVERSATIONS
“Nothing Comes Without Its World,” Introduction. conversation, study guide to the 20th anniversary edition of Donna J. Haraway's Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse Routledge, 2018
Tell Me Something Good: Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail, edited by Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner, 2017. Interviews with Andrea Fraser, Tim Rollins and K.O. S., Ernesto Pujol
“Twilight of the Artworld: From Representation to Ontology in the Work of Matthew Barney,” in Embodied Fantasies: From Awe to Artifice, ed. Suzanne Anker and Sabine Flach, Peter Lang 2013
“TERROIR, The Alchemy of Capitalism,” in Not A Rose, Heide Hatry, Charta Books, 2013
“The Artist’s Book: A Matter of Self-Reflection,” in One of A Kind: The Unique Artist’s Book, curated Heide Hatry, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, Mass, 2011
“The Wind Is Here But My Head is Not,” in Heads and Tales by Heide Hatry, Charta Books, 2009
“The Cremaster Cycle: The Myth is a Muscle, The Muscle is a Code,” in Art Becomes You, ed. Henry Rogers, 2006
Louise Bourgeois, collaboration with Paolo Herkonhoff, Phaidon, 2003
Ellen Gallagher: "A Painter in Three Acts" in Ellen Gallagher, Anthony D’offay Gallery, 2000
“You sober people: Donna Haraway, Avital Ronell, Narcoanalysis, Addiction,” in When Pain Strikes, ed. Bill Burns, Cathy Busby, Kathy Sawchuck, 1999
The American Art Book (New York, Phaidon Press, 1999): Contributor
How Like A Leaf, Book-length portrait of Donna J. Haraway (New York: Routledge, 1999
“Yvonne Rainer Talking Pictures,” in A Woman Who.. Essays, Interviews, Scripts,1999
I played the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer’s, The Man Who Envied Women, 1985
Q and A column. Artforum in 1996
Coveted Creations, Artforum, November 1996
“Copy Shopping,” Artforum, November, 1996
“Quotable Quoters,” Artforum, October,1996
ESSAYS—catalogs, magazines, journals
Suzanne Anker and Frank Gillette“The Three-Body Poetics of Suzanne Anker and Frank Gillette,” Strata catalog, 2021
Anthony Hawley “Symphony of Affect,” Fault Diagnosis, Anthony Hawley catalog, 2018.
Michelle Concepción“The Metaphysical Fairyland of Michelle Concepción,” Michelle Concepción catalog, 2017
Bill Berkson “Language at the Tips of His Fingers: The Art Writing of Bill Berkson,” in For Bill, edited by Jarret Earnest and 2016.
Carolee Schneemann “The Cat Is My Medium: Notes on the Writing and Art of Carolee Schneemann,” Art Journal, Summer 2015
“Hadieh Shafie: A Painter Whose Heart is Made of Poetry,” Hadieh Shafie: Surfaced, Leila Heller Gallery, 2015
James Lee Byars “What to Do With the Ghost of James Lee Byars When He Is Dead and His Body Buried?, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2014
“When Attitude Becomes A Foundation,” The Brooklyn Rail , July, 2015
Hadieh Shafie “‘Eshghe’—A Word So Full of Color It Makes Us Spin,” in Hadieh Shafie: Hidden Words. Leila Heller Gallery, 2013
“Vulnerability and Its Vicissitudes,” Critic’s Page Guest Editor, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2013
“Prolixity and Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2013
Matthew Barney The Library of Amnesiacs: A Possible Reading of Matthew Barney’s Drawings,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August, 2013
Otto Dix “The Nobody in a Field of Abstraction: Otto Dix” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.
“Do Networks Dream of Monarch Butterflies?,” in catalog for Juan Media Festival (JUMF) , Incheon, Korea. October 2013Lesley Dill Lesley Dill “Words Have Wings that Fly from the Mouth of Others; Performance in the Art of Lesley Dill, 2008-2010,” Lesley Dill (Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2009
Tom Friedman “What Is Called Tom Freidman?” Tom Freidman, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
Carolee Schneemann “How a Body Shaped Like A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema,” Carolee Schneemann, Pierre Menil Gallery, Boston Massachusets, 2006
Ellen Gallagher, “The History Lesson: Flesh is a Texture As Much As A Color,” Parkett 73, 2005
“Richard Serra and the Brain: A Form Not Seen Before” Art Brain.org, 2004
911, “Reflections on Memory and Monuments: The 911 Debates,” San Francisco Camerawork, May 2004
Eileen Neff, “To See is Neither in nor of the Eye,” Towards A Supreme Fiction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 2004
Matthew Barney and Vito Acconci, “Archives and Gyms: Sports in the Art of Matthew Barney and Vito Acconci, Trans, fall 2001
Sarah Morris, “To Sit With The Speed Addict” Parkett, 61 2001
“Index” entry for Guggenheim: A-Z., ed. Nancy Spector , The Guggenheim Museum, 2001
Vito Acconci “To Make Is To Question: 1968-2000.” Hugo Boss Award , The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fall 2000
Peter Halley Biographical essay and interview, D.A.P., 2000
James Barsness “The Spirit of the Doorway,” The Monster’s Progress: The Art of James Barsness Hard Press, 1999
“Fashion Is Not Surface,” Response to William Gibson, Artbyte Magazine: The Magazine of Digital Arts, September 1999
“Moriko Mori’s Cyborg Surrealism,” Parkett. Winter 1999
Tony Oursler “The New Generation of Shadows: Mediums, Automatons, and Liminal Insight in the Work of Tony Oursler,” in Tony Oursler Retrospective catalog Hanover Gallery, Germany, 1998
Bill Viola “ Cyberpunk Meets Anti-Modernist: Bill Viola and the Art of Emotive Conjecture,” Artbyte: The Magazine of the Digital Arts, June-July 1998
Matthew Barney, Harry Houdini, “Houdini’s Premonition: Virtuality and Vaudeville on the Internet.” Leonardo, November 1997
Derek Jarman “Fade to Blue: Artists Make Movies,” The Guggenheim Magazine, Spring, 1997
James Barsness “Icons of Comic Relief: The Work of James Barsness,” Catalogue essay for John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Winter 1997
Matthew Barney “Recitative (Hunchback), Aria (Houdini), Ensemble,” Cremaster 5, 1997
Jeff Koons “Euphoric Enthusiasm: ‘Celebration,’” Parkett #50, 1997
Jeff Koons “PUPPY: The New Nature,” commisioned by the Guggenheim Museum on the occasion of the opening of Guggenheim Blibao, October 1997
Cady Noland “Art as Encyclopedia, History as Vaudeville, ” Parkett #46, May 1996
“Raymond Pettibon Reads Henry James,” Parkett #47. Fall 1996
“Matthew Barney 95: Suspension [Cremaster] Secretion [pearl] Secret (biology),” Parkett #45, November 1995
“No Wound Ever Speaks for Itself,” (Gregory Whitehead, Karen Bermann )Artforum, March, 1992
“Watching for What Happens Next,” in City Lights Review 5, Special Issue: War After War: The New Corporate/Military Order. The Middle East. Insurgencies on the Home Front, edited by Nancy J. Peters. 1992
“Yvonne Rainer: Risks Between You and Me,” Monograph for Yvonne Rainer Retrospective, The San Francisco Cinémathèque. Fall, 1990.
With The Quay Brothers, School of Visual Art. This talk was not recorded but you can watch another talk with them I did a few later here. (Also available under Video)
COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS/INTERVIEWS
Tony Oursler The Brooklyn Rail, September 2020
Catherine Gund Aggie, The Brooklyn Rail, November, 2020
Mark Dery on Edward Gorey book, The Brooklyn Rail, Jan/Dec 2019
Donna J. Haraway “Speaking Resurgence to Despair/I’d Rather Stay With the Trouble,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 13, 2017
Zoe Leonard, “Philosopher of the Sequence Out of Sync:, The Brooklyn Rail, June, 2018,
Lucas Zwirner, “Out of the Gallery and Into the Book,”The Brooklyn Rail, April 4,2018,
Caroline Woolard “The Art of Institutional Possibility,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018
Ernesto Pujol “Vulnerability as Self Critical Knowledge,” The Brooklyn Rail, October, 2013.
Carolee Scheemann and Heide Hatry: “Radicalize Your Images and Sensations” The Brooklyn Rail , June 2013
L.A. Kauffmann on Direct Action, The Brooklyn Rail, December 13, 2017
McKenzie Wark,“Durable Futures and Intimate Encounters,”The Brooklyn Rail, September 8, 2015
Tim Rollins and K.O.S, “Two Day s in the Lives of Art, as Social Action: Shakespeare, Darwin, and Hanging Out with Tim Rollins and K.O.S.,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 18, 2013
Andrea Fraser“Imagining What An Effective Critical Intervention Could Be.,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2016
Mark Dion“Mourning Is A Legitimate Way of Thinking,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 16, 2016
Joseph Nechvatal “The Migrant as Conscientious Objector,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 9, 2015
Matthew Ritchie“Reflections on an Omnivorous Visualization System, ” in Proposition Player, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2004
Andrea Fraser “Whatever Gets You Through the Night,” jn Exhibition, Vancouver Center for the Arts, 2003
Aziz+Cucher “These Are the Forms that We Live With,” Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, 1999
Ellen Gallagher, “The Theater Where You Are Not There” Ikon Gallery, Ltd.,1998
The Brothers Quay,“The Dream Team,” Artforum, April 1996
Allucquére Roseanne Stone, “How Like A Goddess,” Artforum, September 1995
Matthew Barney: “Travels in Hypertrophia,” Artforum, May 1995. Reprinted with a new introduction as “The Logs He Carries Are Too Large: An Interview With Matthew Barney” in Sammlung Goetz catalog, Munich, Germany, 1996
Bruce Connor “A Conversation with Bruce Connor,” Idiolects, The Collective for Living Cinema1984.