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Volume 6
On Process
Interviews with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Hélène Cixous, Savanah Leaf, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Senga Nengudi, Sigrid Nunez, and Lisa Yuskavage.
Essay
Volume 6: On Process
by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“We are believers in practice.”
Interview
Sigrid Nunez
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“There are a lot of places a writer desperately wants to go but is afraid to. You have to learn not to worry about what people are going to think of you personally.”
Interview
Julia Bryan-Wilson
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“Lineages that focus only on proper-named artists are not only Eurocentric and masculinist but plain boring.”
Interview
Lisa Yuskavage
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa and Johanna Zwirner
“An individual painting, it ends on kind of a period. Whereas a body of work ends with a question.”
Interview
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
in conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler
“I’ve never been someone who could be influenced very easily.”
Interview
Savanah Leaf
in conversation with Zora Simpson Casebere
“We can’t walk in anyone else’s shoes. Maybe the goal—not just of art, but also of being here—is to walk beside one another.”
Interview
Senga Nengudi
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“I’m not interested in just looking but in having an experience and then expanding from there.”
Interview
Hélène Cixous
in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler
“I spent my youth in a world of women who were, and who insisted to be, witnesses to the fate of women.”