stedelijk│forum: Chris Kraus

The Stedelijk Museum, in collaboration with De Appel arts centre and the University of Amsterdam, proudly presents this stedelijk|forum afternoon with esteemed writer, filmmaker, and critic Chris Kraus. Kraus – known for such as publications as “Where Art Belongs” (2011), “Aliens and Anorexia” (2000), and “I Love Dick” (1997) – will present and read from her latest book, “Summer of Hate” (2012). The author will also be available for questions and a book signing.

The Stedelijk Museum, in collaboration with De Appel arts centre and the University of Amsterdam, proudly presents this stedelijk|forum afternoon with esteemed writer, filmmaker, and critic Chris Kraus. Kraus – known for such as publications as “Where Art Belongs” (2011), “Aliens and Anorexia” (2000), and “I Love Dick” (1997) – will present and read from her latest book, “Summer of Hate” (2012). The author will also be available for questions and a book signing.

About “Summer of Hate”:
Waking up from the chilling high of a near-death sex game, Catt Dunlop travels to Albuquerque in 2005 to reinvest some windfall real-estate gains and reengage with something approximating “real life.” Aware that the critical discourse she has used to build her career as a visiting professor and art critic is really a cipher for something else, she hopes that buying and fixing slum buildings will bring her more closely in touch with American life than the essays she writes.
In Albuquerque, she becomes romantically involved with Paul Garcia, a recently sober ex-con who has just served sixteen months in state prison for defrauding Halliburton Industries, his former employer, of $873. Almost forty years old, Paul is highly intelligent but has only been out of New Mexico twice. With Catt’s help, he makes plans to attend UCLA, only to be arrested on a ten-year-old bench warrant en route.
Caught in the nightmarish Byzantine world of the legal system, Catt and Paul’s empathic attempts to save each other’s lives seem doomed to dissolve. “Summer of Hate” is a novel about flawed reciprocity and American justice, recording recent events through the prism of a beleaguered romance. As lucid and trenchant as ever, Kraus in her newest novel reminds us that the writer can be a first responder of sorts when power becomes invisible, or merely banal.

More information about the author:
Chris Kraus is the author of the novels “Aliens and Anorexia,” “I Love Dick,” and “Torpor,” as well as “Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness” and “Where Art Belongs,” all published by Semiotext(e). A professor of writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.

Location: Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Language: English
Entrance: Entrance price to the Stedelijk Museum
Reservations: It is necessary to make a reservation. Send an e-mail to reservations [​at​] stedelijk.nl, stating your full name, e-mail address, telephone number, and the date of the program you want to attend.