in memoriam
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
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1979
Robert Creeley interviews Kathy Acker, Jacket2, December 12 and 13, 1979 (twelve MP3 files): http://jacket2.org/commentary/robert-creeley-interviews-kathy-acker
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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
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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)
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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
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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/
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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
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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.
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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
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Kathy Acker by Mark Magill, BOMB Magazine #6, Summer 1983
http://bombmagazine.org/article/307/kathy-acker
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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.
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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
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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.
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Kathy Acker Interview, Fist, #1, 1988
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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/
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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.
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1990
Kathy Acker Interview, Gargoyle Magazine #37/38, 30 March 1990
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1991
An Interview with Kathy Acker - Larry McCaffery, Mississippi Review, Vol. 20, No. 1/2, 1991
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The On Our Backs Interview: Kathy Acker, interview by Lisa Palac, On Our Backs, May/June 1991
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Language Of The Body, interview by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, 1992
http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=1
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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).
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1994
Kathy Acker Interview with Benjamin Bratton, Speed: Technology Media Society (1994):
http://nideffer.net/proj/_SPEED_/1.1/acker.html
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Kathy Acker: Where Does She Get Off? - Interview with R. U. Sirius. io 2 (1994):
http://www.altx.com/io/acker.html
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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
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1995
Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance - Kathy Acker interviewed by Rosie X, Geekgirl (1995):
http://www.geocities.ws/nowrite/acker.html
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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
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1996
Interview about Pussy King of the Pirates - Q, Issue #115 (April 1996)
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Interview by Trevor Dodge, Carbon 14 #8 (1996): http://www.mekons.de/portland.htm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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