Chris Kraus. Video, the Female, and the Universal Eye 2009 3/8

http://www.egs.edu/ Author and filmmaker Chris Kraus introducing and speaking about her video work from the late 1980s, lecturing about the influences of Antonin Artaud, Louise Bourgeois, Susan Cooper, Sylvere Lotringer, french theory, psychoanalysis, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, and contemporary fiction on her work. Chris Kraus also spoke about the concept of, or the need for, a universal eye which happens to be female, one which can look honestly both at the male and the female. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2009 Chris Kraus.
Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles based author and filmmaker, and before that an influential film and video maker in the New York Downtown scene of the mid eighties, where she produced many of the videos seen in this lecture. Since 1990, she has directed the Native Agents new fiction series for the visionary independent press Semiotexte, publishing such overlooked writers as Kathy Acker, Barbara Barg, Fanny Howe and Eileen Myles. In 1997, Kraus published I Love Dick, a searing memoir of obsession, fantasy and desire that is at once a feminist manifesto and an indictment of the New York art world of the 1980s. Since then she has gone on to write several more memoir influenced novels, including Aliens and Anorexia and Torpor, a peripatetic novel of loss, anxiety and war. She has also published (with her husband Sylvere Lotringer) Hatred of Capitalism; A Semiotext(e) Reader and two books on the L.A. Art scene—Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles.

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