CHRIS KRAUS
CRITIC/ID/NEW GENRES
Chris Kraus is a writer, editor, filmmaker, professor, curator and critic. In 1997 Kraus wrote the fantastical non-fiction novel I Love Dick, which got Dick Hebdige fired and became an artworld cult classic. SCANDAL! It is a bizarre and smart tumbling of art criticism as performance or critical theory as prose or fake life as real life or abjection as a weapon. AND GOSSIP. Like Felix Guattari's heroin dinner parties and Louise Bourgeois telling you what to wear if you are ever going to make it. Kathy Acker, Nan Goldin, raw feelings of failure and also, also, transcendence. In the foreward, Eileen Myles wrote "When I Love Dick came into existence, a new kind of female life did, too." and Holland Cotter called Kraus "one of our smartest and most original writers on contemporary art and culture."
Chris Kraus is the co-editor of Semiotexte. She is also the author of two books of art criticism, VIDEO GREEN: LOS ANGELES ART AND THE TRIUMPH OF NOTHINGNESS (2004) AND WHERE ART BELONGS (2011) and four novels including the most recent SUMMER OF HATE. She received the Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Arts Writing Grant in 2010. In spring 2012, Kraus co-curated the exhibition "Radical Localism - Art, Media and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose" at Artists Space in New York. A frequent contributor to Artforum and other magazines, she has taught at European Graduate School, UCSD, SFAI, and Art College Center for Design.
Chris Kraus will do a reading from her latest book Summer of Hate at 7PM, Thursday 6th December at Warner. Studio visit sign ups will be tomorrow morning at 11AM.
http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/index/intra/intra11-13-97.asp
http://nplusonemag.com/female-trouble
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2011-06-22/chris-kraus-real-fine-arts
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