Live Through This On Creativity and Self-Destruction

by CHAPADJIEV, SABRINA

• ISBN13: 9781609804367
• ISBN10: 1609804368
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-11
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces,andLive Through Thisandis a collectionandof original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest,andmadness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eatinganddisorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers,andplaywrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroyandwomen artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest andandhopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, andandthe ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle,andElizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio,andKate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.

Author Biography

SABRINA CHAPADJIEV is a playwright, spoken word artist, and singer-songwriter originally from the suburbs of Chicago. She is founder of the all-woman songwriter series Chicks that Kick, and editor of the zine Cliterature: 18 Interviews with Women Writers. Her plays, including perhaps merely quiet, have been produced in the United States and Europe.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 15
Long, Long Thoughts	p. 21
Lady Lazarus: Uncoupleting Suicide and Poetry	p. 33
Fighting Fire with Acid Rain: A Story on Coming Down	p. 43
A Little Hell Breaks Loose	p. 53
Total Disaster: Sketching Sanity	p. 71
Slash an' Burn	p. 85
SHE'S LOST CONTROL AGAIN (Or How Alice Learned to Drive)	p. 97
Double Trouble in the Love Art Lab: Our Breast Cancer Experiments	p. 111
Friends as Heroes	p. 125
Rappin' My Wounds Toni Blackmail	p. 135
The Artful Art of the Role of Art in the Ugly Art of Survival	p. 147
Weight Watcher	p. 155
Rewriting the Script	p. 169
Cello Speak: Exploring New Languages for Madness	p. 179
no more crying	p. 193
Self-Portraits	p. 199
Silent Body, Speaking Body	p. 205
Art as Prayer	p. 213
Live Through That?!	p. 225
Creating Your Own World	p. 231
2 pm	p. 245
A Few Direct Questions	p. 253
Artist Resource List	p. 263
Resources	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 283
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