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“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—be it a memory or on a screen or some fragile blip of the ‘real’—and I let associations spiral out from there.”
“The store was about conversations between worlds and how those conversations meshed together and only Sara could do that.”
"I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage."
"I can’t think of architecture as anything other than a performative art form."
“Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.”
"I've never understood catharsis."
“Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.”
“L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.”
"At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless."
Unfinished Work: A Roundtable on L’informe
“It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.”
Volume 1: On L'Informe
"Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key."
“I experienced my transness as a shape the Internet made when it looked at me.”
On L’informe
Rethinking contemporary aspects of the informe—related to technology, gender, disease, and race—in a Bataillean key through interviews with Matthew Barney, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Michael Taussig; a roundtable featuring Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, and November editors; and essays on Black Bataille and the long shadow of catharsis.
Interviews 1-10
Adrian Piper, Frank B. Wilderson III, Christopher K. Ho, Sarah Schulman, Nell Painter, Ruba Katrib, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Mark Wigley, Howardena Pindell, and Hal Foster.