Word: lording
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...looked at each other and said, ‘Why don’t we do a queer show?’” Lord said. “We made a proposal and sent it off to the obvious museums—museums I won’t name here, but that have demonstrated their dedication to contemporary art. Museums where we have connections. There was a resounding silence, if that’s possible.” Lord demurred about whether the subject matter was the cause of the show’s failure...
Meyer and Lord have disagreed before. “We had a pretty extreme difference of opinion about Valerie Solanas,” he says. “I felt that Catherine was idealizing a woman whose writing was incredible but whose actions were indefensible,” he says, adding that “Catherine saw Solanas’ ‘SCUM [Society for Cutting Up Men] Manifesto’ as an indelible representation of feminist rage and lesbian revenge, and I saw it as, well, scary...
...Lord was quick to qualify the criticisms from Meyer and others levelled at her work on Solanas. “I don’t think it’s right to shoot people, unless you really, really have to,” she says. “But nonetheless I think it’s important to come up with a reading of [Solanas’ manifesto]. There are a lot of guys who shot people or strangled their wives or knifed them to death, and they continue to be taken seriously. I’m really not condoning...
...acceptance ceremony, Lord will discuss her less controversial current work, a “text/image project” inspired by a group of commonplace books from the Caribbean. The book does not push a particular argument, but rather reflects Lord’s personal interests. “It’s a matter of combining things that I’m actually interested in. I’m really interested in plants, you know? I’m really interested in food, and its relation to taste literally. I’m interested in bad paintings. I love photographing...
...Lord does not see this move as a step down from her previous work. “To sound utterly cliché about it, you have to trust what you’re interested in,” she says...