\nWednesday, April 16, 2008 at 8 p.m.
\nat Le M\u00e9li\u00e8s cinema
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With Marion Scemama, Fran\u00e7ois Pain and Laurence Viallet (founder of the publishing house D\u00e9sordres).<\/strong><\/p>\n David Wojnarowicz and Kathy Acker have chiseled their art out of anger and desire “as imaginary weapons of resistance to the established powers”. This session is dedicated to these two magnificent writers, performers and video artists, who evolved in New York’s East Village in the 80s and 90s, a cosmopolitan district of the underground punk and art scene, where squatters, transvestites, prostitutes, junkies and broke artists rubbed shoulders.<\/p>\n An eruptive artist of the counter-culture, Kathy Acker illuminated the New York scene of the 70s and 90s, with a schizophrenic use of language articulated with social critique, and a partly autofictional exploration of fragmented, androgynous identities, heralding contemporary queer feminisms. Kathy Acker’s only film production, The blue tape, co-directed with poet, artist and performer Alan Sondheim, is an “experimental diary” of their relationship, an unvarnished exploration of intimacy and the relationship between sexuality and power in a couple. (distribution: le peuple qui manque)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"kathy-acker1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.lepeuplequimanque.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/maison-pop-6-10\/kathy-acker1.jpg\" "\\"Kathy")
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\n“Kathy Acker (1947-1997) left behind some twenty-five years spent struggling with writing, as well as some fifteen underground novels evoking blood, sex and madness.
\nThe granddaughter of the Beat Generation and grandmother of the riot girls, the sultry Kathy Acker was an atypical and decadent author who never ceased to shout out her freedom, eternally going against the tide. Acker was an artist at odds with everything. From classical literature, which she vehemently challenged; from the bourgeoisie, which she distrusted; from traditional feminism, which she scrupulously avoided; from macho men, whom she detested. Burroughs punk and nymphomaniac, but also the grandmother of the strongly lesbian-tinged post-feminist movement.” Excerpts from “Kathy Acker, \u00e0 c\u0153ur et \u00e0 cris”, Patrick Th\u00e9venin<\/p>\n