The Economics of
Joussiance
J-A MILLER
Women and Families
ALAIN BADIOU
Moments in a
Love Story
MARIE-HÉLÈNE
BROUSSE
Feminine Jouissance
ÉRIC LAURENT
The Child As Object
PIERRE-GILLES
GUÉGUEN
Persistent Trait
LILA ZEMBORIAN /
MARTIN REYNA
Eating Alone in the
Byways of Smithson
CATHY LEBOWITZ
The Grandmother's Voice
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Martin Kippenberger,
Sigmar Polke
CL INTERVIEWS JA
Martin Kippernberger,
Sigmar Polke
[excerpt]
Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josefina Ayerza
Cathy Lebowitz: The sculpture of Kippenberger's man in a moving chair, in his suit, with his plastic face, reminds me of Zizek's discussion of Lacan's idea of appearances. Appearance at its purest "occurs not when we put up a deceiving screen to conceal the transgression, but when we fake that there is a transgression to be concealed." Who is this man? What is he hiding?
Josefina Ayerza: As for Kippenberger's man in a moving chair, in his suit, with his plastic face… if faking a transgression to be concealed, he may no longer pretend he doesn't know what everyone knows he knows because his thoughts are visible — inside his transparent head. To a point that everybody can see it, something in the shape of a body stands in between his eyes… The feet on the man's mouth, if the figure sitting in place of his nose is a woman, she could well fit Lacan's concept about the woman being the symptom of man[…]