Цитаты из книг — Ким Гордон

Находиться на сцене для меня значит быть бесстрашной. Я написала статью для Artforum в середине восьмидесятых, там есть строчка, которую часто цитирует критик Грейл Маркус: “Люди платят деньги за то, чтобы посмотреть, как другие верят в себя”. Имея в виду, что, чем выше шанс облажаться на публике, тем больше значения в…

When you listen to old R&B records, the women on them sang in a really fierce, kick-ass way. In general, though, women aren’t really allowed to be kick-ass. It’s like the famous distinction between art and craft: Art, and wildness, and pushing against the edges, is a male thing. Craft, and control, and polish, is for…

То, что раньше называлось «испанским стилем», сейчас выглядит каким-то болезненным. Создаётся впечатление, что сейчас никто не знает, как правильно штукатурить.

Я провела много времени в Берлине и у немцев есть все эти замечательные длинные слова с особыми значениями. Например, Maskenfreiheit, что означает “маска свободы”.

Today we have someone like Lana Del Rey, who doesn’t even know what feminism is, who believes it means women can do whatever they want, which, in her world, tilts toward self-destruction, whether it’s sleeping with gross older men or being a transient biker queen. Equal pay and equal rights would be nice. Naturally, it’s…

Standing in front of me, Kurt seemed small, close to my height, though he was actually five foot nine and I’m only five foot five. He had big, watery eyes, slightly hunted looking. I’m not sure why, but I felt an immediate kinship with him, one of those mutual I-can-tell-you-are-a-super-sensitive-and-emotional-person-too…

Karen was so thin from starving herself that her clothes hung on her bones like flowing biblical robes. She couldn’t make peace with her own body’s curves. She would never get the love she craved from her mother, who favored her brother, or from her brother himself. Their approval meant everything. How was she not the…

The only autonomy Karen felt she had in her life she exerted over her own body. She was an extreme version of what a lot of women suffer from—a lack of control over things other than their bodies, which turns the female body into a tool for power—good, bad, or ugly.

It’s worth remembering that from the beginning, rock and roll was never based in musical training or technique, just as punk rock was never about being a good musician and No Wave was at its core about pure expression.

Today the traditional art discourse of creating a show around an idea has almost completely deteriorated into setting up a room with objects for sale.

Guys playing music. I loved music. I wanted to push up close to whatever it was men felt when they were together onstage—to try to ink in that invisible thing. It wasn’t sexual, but it wasn’t unsexual either. Distance mattered in male friendships. One on one, men often had little to say to one another. They found some…

Wall Street drives the whole country, with the fashion industry as the icing. Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing. Creative ideas and personal ambition are no longer mutually exclusive. A friend recently described the work of an artist we…

John Knight taught me that anything—a car, a house, a lawn—could be seen and talked about in aesthetic terms. He introduced me to conceptual art, showed me how all art derives from an idea. Every week, his class met at a different place, typically one of his students’ houses or apartments. We would discuss in detail…