To me, that’s very queer — to write a chracater who you’re very thirsty for but who would have no interest in you.
I’ve cultivated a kind of heat in my process both in order to short circuit my critical faculties, so I can more readily be surprised, and also to outrun my self-doubt.
I prefer the French term ‘chercheur,’ or straight-up ‘researcher’ because it has a kind of Sufi ring to it. You know, the idea of being on a never-ending path towards knowledge, ignorance being the perpetual state of the present.
“Fiction can give meaning to the world and fiction can make sense of the world, but then, because it is fiction after all, it also makes a good case for questioning whether anything is for anything.”
Yep.
In my work, I’m trying to get inside of performance time, inside my own thinking and making and interiority.
What the feminist health movement really did was change the way that we understand evidence and experience – and actually the knowledge of the body. Individual experience can be as legitimate as scientific knowledge.
“I don’t want to let these things just glide by; I think we can learn from our current digital age through art and being in conversation with it.
“A story is whatever I say it is.”
“We love the idea of books being live, sentient beings that have desires, agendas, anger”