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BK: Negotiation Meaning?

RP: Open season as far as I’m concerned.

BK: Pictures and words seem to become

rallying points for certain assumptions.

There are assumptions of truth and

falsity and I guess the narratives of

falsity are called fictions.

RP: Like lying,

in the physiological sense,

the telling of a true story is

an unnatural act.

Betsy Sussler Craig Gholson Carl Apfelschnitt Sarah Charlesworth Michael McClard Kathy Acker Eric Mitchell Becky Johnston Amos Poe Tim Burns Jim Jarmusch No Rio Charles Ludlam Christopher Scott Jacki Ochs Michael Smith Mirielle Cervenka Gary Indiana Sonia Delauney Phillipe Demontaut Barbara Kruger Richard Prince Keith Sonnier Valie Export Alan Scarritt Jim Chladek Mark Magill Mary Heilmann Ellen Phelan Georgia Marsh Paul Bowles Michael McClard Duncan Hannah JoAnne Akalaitis Gianfranco Gorgoni H.M. Koutoukas Rockets Redglare Mary Mhoon James McLure Nightshift Olue Kuroeman II James Purdy Maris Duval Joan Tewkesbury Jene Highstein Mark Pauline James Son Thomas Anthony McCall Judy Pfaff Richard Serra Daniel Schmid Robin Winters Lizzie Borden Jorg Immendorf Kiki Smith Edouard Roditi Bradford Morrow Taylor Meade Elizabeth Murray Ellen Phelan Pat Steir Malcolm Morley Nicolas Echevarria Pam Yates James Nares Tom Otterness Daisy Zamora Glenn O’Brien María Irene Fornés Jeff Weiss Cindy Sherman Billy Sullivan Robert Gober Laurie Simmons

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Betsy Sussler Craig Gholson Carl Apfelschnitt Sarah Charlesworth Michael McClard Kathy Acker Eric Mitchell Becky Johnston Amos Poe Tim Burns Jim Jarmusch No Rio Charles Ludlam Christopher Scott Jacki Ochs Michael Smith Mirielle Cervenka Gary Indiana Sonia Delauney Phillipe Demontaut Barbara Kruger Richard Prince Keith Sonnier Valie Export Alan Scarritt Jim Chladek Mark Magill Mary Heilmann Ellen Phelan Georgia Marsh Paul Bowles Michael McClard Duncan Hannah JoAnne Akalaitis Gianfranco Gorgoni H.M. Koutoukas Rockets Redglare Mary Mhoon James McLure Nightshift Olue Kuroeman II James Purdy Maris Duval Joan Tewkesbury Jene Highstein Mark Pauline James Son Thomas Anthony McCall Judy Pfaff Richard Serra Daniel Schmid Robin Winters Lizzie Borden Jorg Immendorf Kiki Smith Edouard Roditi Bradford Morrow Taylor Meade Elizabeth Murray Ellen Phelan Pat Steir Malcolm Morley Nicolas Echevarria Pam Yates James Nares Tom Otterness Daisy Zamora Glenn O’Brien María Irene Fornés Jeff Weiss Cindy Sherman Billy Sullivan Robert Gober Laurie Simmons

AY: Let’s talk about—

JL: Whether or not you can be kind of

an outside crazy person and still

be accepted by society.

TM: I’m not accepted by society.

Jon Leon: No, it’s gotta be something

unnatural, doesn’t it?

I’m trying to spell out a world I carry in my head, from memories, from wishes, from reading, from movies, from a lot of the world that’s vanishing. -Duncan Hannah

I’m trying to spell out a world I carry in my head, from memories, from wishes, from reading, from movies, from a lot of the world that’s vanishing. -Duncan Hannah

Kiki Smith: Objects do carry

memory.

Chuck Close: which is a real act

of love

Kiki Smith: You just have to pay attention to what’s

discarded, or disregarded.

LB: There can be no art without a tension between oppositions.

MG: It shows how powerful culture can be.

LB: Sure, we

were nothing

but visions.

MG: It shows how powerful culture can be.