TALKER #5: SPALDING GRAY WITH KATHY ACKER

Giles Bailey

TALKER is a self published interview zine about performance by musician, artist & writer Giles Bailey

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Issue #5 of Talker features a transcript of an event hosted by the writer Kathy Acker at the ICA, London in February 1987 in which the performer Spalding Gray discussed his work.

A founding member of the Wooster Group, Spalding Gray gained fame for his autobiographical monologue performances. At the time of this conversation he had just completed filming Jonathan Demme’s movie adaptation of his work Swimming to Cambodia, a performance in which he describes experiences surrounding a trip to Southeast Asia to play a small role in the film The Killing Fields (1984). In this dialogue with Acker, Gray focuses on the process of developing work and compares his experience of writing with making live performance.

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That even was part of the ICA’s IN CONVERSATION series which paired up writers to talk about their practices.

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Self-Published

280 x 180mm

20 pages

Risograph throughout

Saddle stitch, Card cover

Released: 2018.