The Assassination of Kathy Acker (excerpts)

The Assassination of Kathy Acker is a composite text that narrates the layers of Kathy Acker’s death, life and afterlife. Written over a span of 15 years, it began as a journal of Kathy Acker's hospitalization and death from breast cancer. As much as the life and death of humans, it also probes the life and afterlife of texts, how they escape, capture and live out their own dreams and anxieties

Jeanne Dunning : Bodies of Work

Palmer discusses the position Dunning's work takes in the power relations of gender, the art world and of the viewer toward the work of art. Viegener relates the artist's cibachromes to advertising, feminism and Freudian theory; Blinderman fragments his text in response to Dunning's enlarged "details" of the body, and interleaves a number of authors (Burroughs, Deleuze & Guattari, Ballard, Duchamp, Fried) with his own remarks about Dunning's preoccupation with hair and body parts. Biographical notes. 33 bibl. ref

Against Nature : A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men

This publication was part of a group exhibition which called attention to the place of gay male sexual desire in contemporary arts - particularly video and visual art - by focusing on cultural practices engaged in the struggle against AIDS. It contains fictional texts concerned with issues of illness, loss, mourning, melancholia, nature and artificiality. Biographical notes. 4 bibl. ref