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Kathy Acker Interviewed

 

1978

Segue Series Reading with Lorenzo Thomas at the Ear Inn, November 13, 1978:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Acker.php#dec-12-13-79

 

1979

Robert Creeley interviews Kathy Acker, Jacket2, December 12 and 13, 1979 (twelve MP3 files): http://jacket2.org/commentary/robert-creeley-interviews-kathy-acker

 

1981

 

 

Ecstasy Next, interview with Kathy Acker, VACATION,

Temporary Insanity, Spring Edition 1981

The Magazine for Today's Young Psychopaths

Editor: Patrick Roques

Publisher: Mark Lee Baker

Printed and distributed from San Francisco California USA, 36 pages

In this issue:

Ladies & Gentlemen Meet The Residents or A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Obscurity, Duncan Smith: All About Sunset, Processing of a Non-Resident by Dorothy Gammes, Ikue Mori, Cats Eye, Jimmy De Sana, James Chance & Anya Phillips, Kathy Acker - Ecstasy Next, Anthony John Candia, Diary of a Lost Soul, Reuho Center by Jo Jo Planteen, Freedom of Solitude by Steven Brown (Tuxedo Moon)

 

1982

 

 

 

Interview with Kathy Acker, East Village Eye, Vol. 3 No. 22, June 1982

– also includes: Afrika Bambaataa, Lenny Kaye, Laurie Anderson
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153541445978041&id=577528040&pnref=story

 

1983

 

Punk Porn Plagiarism: Interview with Kathy Acker, NME, 22 January1983
http://www.oocities.org/punkettes80s/kathyacker.html
https://standupandspit.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/kathy-acker/

 

1984

Southbank Show, Documentary about Kathy Acker in 1984 where she talks about her writing and her life in New York. Includes a nice scene with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe taking pictures of Kathy Acker. The programme was produced and directed by Alan Benson and broadcast in the UK in the Southbank Show, hosted by Melvyn Bragg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYyFMnVlkuY&feature=youtu.be

 

 

The pornographic Imagination: an interview with Kathy Acker, The Face, #45 January 1984

 

 

 

 

Interview with Kathy Acker by Tim Hulse, Blitz, #18, February 1984

 

1985

 

Blood and Guts in Hype City, Blitz, Issue 34, Sept 1985:

www.blitzmagazine.co.uk/images/34/blitz34_sept_1985.pdf

 

Cry Tough, interview with Kathy Acker, City Limits, June 28-4 July, #195.

 

1986

 

In the tradition of Cervantes, sort of, Kathy Acker interviewed by Lori Miller, New York Times Book Review, 30 November 1986

A Radical American Abroad, Kathy Acker interviewed by Tony Dunn, Drama 160, 1986

An Informal Interview with Kathy Acker on the 23rd April, 1986, Over Here 6, No 2, 1986

 

Kathy Acker by Mark Magill, BOMB Magazine #6, Summer 1983
http://bombmagazine.org/article/307/kathy-acker

Kathy Acker talks about Don Quixote to Peter Wollen at the ICA London; 8/5/86, as MP3:
http://www.marysialewandowska.com/waa/detail.php?id=4913

 

 

 


 

1897

 

Kathy Acker in Conversation with Angela McRobbie, Writers Talk Series, ICA Video (41 min). Topics discussed in the Interview: post-structuralist and post-modern writing, influence of william burroughs, seventies' american punk culture, the cut-up method.

 

1988

 

Kathy Acker interviewed by Stan Nichols, Interzone #27, Jan/Feb 1988
https://archive.org/stream/Interzone_027_1989-01-02/Interzone_027_1989-01-02_djvu.txt

 

Kathy Acker Interviewed, Tripping Yarns #2,

features: comix artist Savage Pencil,

comix publisher Tony Bennet ("Knockabout Comics"),

interview with writer KATHY ACKER conducted by Alan Moore,

talks with the Butthole Surfers and Killdozer

(also conducted by Moore) and much more.

 

Kathy Acker Interview, Fist, #1, 1988

 

1989

 

A Conversation with Kathy Acker – Ellen G. Friedman,

The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1989, Volume 9, Number 3
http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/a-conversation-with-kathy-acker-by-ellen-g-friedman/

 

Kathy Acker Growing Up Female In America, Zero Hour #3, 1989.

Covering underground sex, art and music.

An adult only mag, this issue featured:

Kathy Acker, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden,

Ted Bundy, peep shows, and true confessions

of a punk rock whore.

 

1990

 

Kathy Acker Interview, Gargoyle Magazine #37/38, 30 March 1990

1991

 

An Interview with Kathy Acker - Larry McCaffery, Mississippi Review, Vol. 20, No. 1/2, 1991

 

The On Our Backs Interview: Kathy Acker, interview by Lisa Palac, On Our Backs, May/June 1991

 

Reading the Body, interview by Larry McCaffery, Mondo 2000 4, 1991
also in Larry McCaffery, Storming the Reality Studio:

A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction, 1991

 

Interview with Kathy Acker 8 June 1991 (p1-p17)

Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews, Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor)

Hardcover: 384 pages

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (18 May 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0816638322

ISBN-13: 978-0816638321

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j-SHZQH5e0MC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=kathy+Acker+Tribe+8&source=bl&ots=Txn4AqQVX-&sig=lYaTTjuGeagpfVOVh9xTHDALX-U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD76Sq3KTLAhXK1xQKHfYbDhAQ6AEIRTAI#v=onepage&q=kathy%20Acker%20Tribe%208&f=false

1992

 

Kathy Acker interviewed by Rebecca Deaton, Textual Practice, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1992:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502369208582142?journalCode=rtpr20

 

Portrait of an Eye, Kathy Acker interviewed on Bookworm, KCRW Radio (Santa Monica College), 31 August 1992:
http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/kathy-acker

 

The Language Of The Body, interview by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, 1992
http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=1

 

1993

 

An Interview With Kathy Acker by Paul Perilli, Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 1993.

 

 

Kathy Acker Growing Up Female In America, Sexzine 1993

(a reprint of the interview from Zero Hour #3 1989).

 

 

1994

 

Kathy Acker Interview with Benjamin Bratton, Speed: Technology Media Society (1994):
http://nideffer.net/proj/_SPEED_/1.1/acker.html

Kathy Acker: Where Does She Get Off? - Interview with R. U. Sirius. io 2 (1994):
http://www.altx.com/io/acker.html

A Conversation with Kathy Acker, Another Chicago Magazine #30, October 1994
http://www.anotherchicagomagazine.net/content/12-03-2010/archive/acm-archive-kathy-acker-interview

 

 

Body Bildung: Interview with Kathy Acker by Laurence Rickels, Artforum 32 (Feb 1994):
http://larickels.com/pdfs/AF%20LR%20KAsm.pdf

1995

 

Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance - Kathy Acker interviewed by Rosie X, Geekgirl (1995):
http://www.geocities.ws/nowrite/acker.html

Interview and Reading at SUNY-Buffalo as part of the Wednesdays @ 4 Plus Series, April 12, 1995: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Acker.php#dec-12-13-79

1996

 

Interview about Pussy King of the Pirates - Q, Issue #115 (April 1996)

Interview by Trevor Dodge, Carbon 14 #8 (1996): http://www.mekons.de/portland.htm

Latest from ‘punk writer’ is tale of sexy pirate girl gangs – interview in Seattle Times by Cynthia Rose, 1996: http://www.mekons.de/pussy2.htm

The Path of Abjection: An Interview with Kathy Acker, Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors, Larry McCaffery, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IYBK7wErBrIC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Interview+with+Kathy+Acker&source=bl&ots=f6tBBl3Q0o&sig=m6vkRJGUXim-nlEodTAVa3Qhwwk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFifjWlcrKAhVDWD4KHf9qDQs4ChDoAQgnMAI#v=onepage&q=Interview%20with%20Kathy%20Acker&f=false

1997

Conversation between Kathy Acker, Sandro Chia, Philip Glass, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, David Salle, Richard Serra, and Lawrence Weiner – ARTFORUM, May 1982 Vol. XX No. 9

Written on the body: Interview with Kathy Acker, Ros Wynne-Jones, Independent, Saturday 13 September 1997: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-kathy-acker-written-on-the-body-1239024.html

Vacation Magazine cover
Kathy Acker interveiew - Ecstasy Next - in Vacation
NME cover, 22 January 1983
Blitz, February 1984, cover
Face Magazine - Pornographic Imagination: interview with Kathy Acker
Blitz magazine, September 1985, cover
Bomb Magazine, Summer 1983
Interzone, jan/Feb 1988, cover
Tripping Yarns cover
Fist magazine, Kathy Acker interview
Fist magazine cover
Kathy Acker - The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1989, Volume 9, Number 3
Zero Hour #3, 1989
Kathy Acker Interview, Gargoyle Magazine #37/38, 30 March 1990
 Reading the Body, interview by Larry McCaffery, Mondo 2000 4, 1991
Interview with Kathy Acker 8 June 1991; Art, Performance, Media: 31 Interviews, Nicholas Zurbrugg
An Interview With Kathy Acker by Paul Perilli, Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 1993
Sexzine 1993
Body Bildung: Interview with Kathy Acker by Laurence Rickels, Artforum 32 (Feb 1994)
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