Featuring the work of Kathy Acker, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann and more, Lauren Elkin’s new book Art Monsters is a daring meditation on artists and writers whose work speaks from the body
Lauren Elkin: I’ve been interested in art for a really long time, particularly artists working across genres. They were not trying to develop theories of what they were doing, just trying to make work that spoke to them.scholar, and an incredible feminist activist. There was something excessive about her. She had a lot of anger and I was very impressed by that.
LE: I have a strong contrarian spirit! I don’t do things that seem obvious, and abjection, the feminine grotesque, seemed obvious. It’s important to acknowledge that feminist activism can include – I hope – writing a book alone, but connected, in your room. LE: You know, ‘the monstrous’ – in Greek and Latin – has the joint etymologies of sign and warning. As I was writing, there were reckonings with Schutz’s controversial painting of Emmett Till’s murdered black body. It felt like monstrosity gone awry. It would be wrongheaded to boil the controversy down to whether artists can paint whatever they want, or not. Likewise,
LE: Someone has to say it out loud! I don’t think that we talk about that enough. I kept putting this chapter off, but then I faced the fact I was never going to do this perfect accounting of Kathy Acker as a writer, so maybe I should make it about my response to her. We all love Kathy Acker, I love everything that she stands for, but then when you actually read her … like, oh man, really? It’s not like we just read her work seamlessly and it’s no problem.
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