Talker #5: Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker

Talker #5: Spalding Gray with Kathy AckerTalker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #5. It is 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 Demmes movie adaptation of his work Swimming

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and are excited as he is to finally see the finished magazine

There are African queens

A beautiful glimpse into the daily practice of a modern contemplative

the environment must be controlled

the individuals sometimes grouped or alone

I collected three sets of sunlight: the dwindling daylight from an absurd adventure out on the Arctic Sea

the art world stopped turning

'Poetry Fruit Machine' is a creative writing deck developed by poets Ella Frears and Jessica Todd

Consider that we’ve had the word thermometre a century and a half earlier than the invention of the metre

A stunning full-color

the oldest part of the tunnel system