Kathy Acker Videos

A short animated film. Part One of two. To read the short story please go to: http://www.armageddonbuffet.com/requitedecstasy.htm

Kathy Acker (April 1947 to November 1997) was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. One of the leading experimental writers of her generation, she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, philosophy, and pornography. Acker's first work appeared in print as part of the burgeoning New York literary underground of the mid-1970s. She claimed that her early writings were profoundly influenced by her experiences working for a few months as a stripper. She remained on the margins of the literary establishment, only being published by small presses until the mid-1980s, thus earning herself the epithet of literary terrorist. 1984 saw her first British publication, a novel called Blood and Guts in High School. From here on Acker produced a considerable body of novels, almost all still in print with Grove Press. In her work, she combined plagiarism, cut-up techniques, pornography, autobiography, persona and personal essay to confound expectations of what fiction should be. In April 1996 Kathy Acker was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. After pursuing several forms of alternative medicine in England and the United States, Acker died a year and a half later from complications of breast cancer in an alternative cancer clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. -Wikipedia ===== "Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing." -Kathy Acker ======= Check out Red Zen, Cocoon of Terror, and How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell at Amazon.com. Thanks.

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Cutting edge poet, Daphne Gottlieb talks about the myth of the suicidal female poet, depression, suicide, and the state of the American artist. Based off her contribution to the book, "Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction", which includes contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard and Stephanie Howell. Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

A video made at The Fridge in Brixton, in 1984, featuring among others Kathy Acker, Les from The Vic Reeves Show, Pedro Ortiz, Rene Eyre and a cast of thousands

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video de Patricia Allio - Kathy Acker

Anna Joy Springer at the Rubber Rose. Footage shot by Deanna Erdmann.

Disinformation and Strange Attractor perform "National Grid" with live mains and static electricity at Cargo nightclub, Hoxton, London, UK, 17 February 2005. "National Grid" was first performed in 1996. Special thanks to Magz Hall. "You are Hear" benefit concert for Resonance FM. For more details see text and video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13-09K-Ubc "The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life in the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been... That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight." Friedrich Nietzsche "Daybreak" 1881 This version of "National Grid" was first performed at The Royal Institution, alongside presentations by writers Sadie Plant, Ken Hollings and Prof Steven Connor (of Birkbeck and The London Consortium), Graham Massey (of 808 State) and Howard Walmsley, and sound artist Jo Thomas. The Royal Institution event was programmed by writer and artist Tom McCarthy (of The International Necronautical Society), and included (amongst others) inventor and artist Tim Hunkin and historian-of-science Patricia Fara in the audience. The Cargo show also featured Tetine (hey y'all - visible in the video), Cursor Miner and Ommm, with DJs Jonny Trunk, Mr Psyche and Jim Backhouse. The Westbourne Studios show also featured presentations by artists Alex Baker, Jordan Baseman, Alexander Costello, Phil Coy, Shezad Dawood, Andrew Dodds, Maria Fusco, Lizzie Hughes, Thorsten Knaub, Susan Pui San Lok, The People Speak, Michael Pinsky, Thomson & Craighead and Mark Titchner. The Bad Timing event at The Junction in Cambridge also featured Bugbrand Audio and Andrew Coleman. The original performance version of "National Grid" premiered at a Disobey club night, organised by Blast First Records in 1996, which also featured music by DJ Beekeeper (aka Bruce Gilbert from the band Wire) and a reading by Bill Drummond of The KLF, and which included (amongst many others) writer Kathy Acker in the audience. Other performance versions of "National Grid" were performed alongside composer Nic Collins and sound artist Janek Schaefer at Berlin's Volksbühne and Karlsruhe's ZKM, and alongside Add N to (X) at Disinformation's nuclear bunker event near Anstruther, Scotland.

Disinformation vs Strange Attractor perform "National Grid", live at "Arcade", Westbourne Studios, Rotting Hill, London, UK, 26 Sept 2006. Special thanks to organiser Ben Eastop. For more details see text and video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13-09K-Ubc "The city nears. My body crackles. I hear eruptions at the base of my skull." Ludwig Meidner, Leipzig 1918 This version of "National Grid" was first performed at The Royal Institution, alongside presentations by writers Sadie Plant, Ken Hollings and Prof Steven Connor (of Birkbeck and The London Consortium), Graham Massey (of 808 State) and Howard Walmsley, and sound artist Jo Thomas. The Royal Institution event was programmed by writer and artist Tom McCarthy (of The International Necronautical Society), and included (amongst others) inventor and artist Tim Hunkin and historian-of-science Patricia Fara in the audience. The Cargo show also featured Tetine, Cursor Miner and Ommm, with DJs Johnny Trunk, Mr Psyche and Jim Backhouse. The Westbourne Studios / ACAVA show also featured presentations by artists Alex Baker, Jordan Baseman, Alexander Costello, Phil Coy, Shezad Dawood, Andrew Dodds, Maria Fusco, Lizzie Hughes, Thorsten Knaub, Susan Pui San Lok, The People Speak, Michael Pinsky, Thomson & Craighead and Mark Titchner. The Bad Timing event at The Junction in Cambridge also featured Bugbrand Audio and Andrew Coleman. The original performance version of "National Grid" premiered at a Disobey club night, organised by Blast First Records in 1996, which also featured music by DJ Beekeeper (aka Bruce Gilbert from the band Wire) and a reading by Bill Drummond of The KLF, and which included (amongst many others) writer Kathy Acker in the audience. Other performance versions of "National Grid" were performed alongside composer Nic Collins and sound artist Janek Schaefer at Berlin's Volksbühne and Karlsruhe's ZKM, and alongside Add N to (X) at Disinformation's nuclear bunker event near Anstruther, Scotland.