An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.
Yoann Sarrat (born 1989) is a French artist and performer using dance and writing. In 2016, he founded the company FREEING with Thieng Nguyen. Yoann Sarrat has worked with composers, musicians, tattoo artists and visual artists, and in various companies. He edits the journal
FREEING (Our Bodies).
Jean-François Bory (born 1938 in Paris, where he lives and works) is a French visual
poet, publisher, and editor (
Celebrity Cafe,
Approches…). He is one of the key actor of the rediscovery of
Dada founding member
Raoul Hausmann.
Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was at the forefront of transgressive writing from the Seventies until her death. Her provocative intertextual narratives—halfway between autobiography and
pornography—were developed in lectures, performances and films (
Variety, Bette Gordon). Her published work includes
Blood and Guts in High School (1984),
Don Quixote (1986), and
Empire of the Senseless (1988).
