Which As You Know Means Violence considers the relationship between pain, self-harm, performance and life via artists like Chris Burden and Harmony Korine – here, PhilippaSnow talks about the current landscape for criticism and the value of humour
Which As You Know Means Violence
She feels like a writer’s writer. “Philippa’s writing makes me feel like I am rolling around in the mud wearing pearls. You are in the muck of glamour!” says the fashion journalist and critic Rachel Seville Tashjian. “I can think of few people writing now who give ‘the great feminine’ the kind of gritty and glorious thinking it deserves, which is what Philippa does.”is a surprisingly moving, life-affirming book, in part because it’s about life, art, performance, being pushed to its limits.
The internet has royally fucked with things in some ways, because as far as I can see it’s far easier to reach a wide audience with a pan than it is with a positive review; I also think most critics will admit to finding it less challenging to write about something they hate than something they love, because writing cruelly is easier than writing kindly.
he stupid but truthful answer is that I tend to choose subjects based purely on feeling – either I have a connection to them that I often find difficult to express other than through the criticism itself, or I’m struck by the possibility of extrapolating some sort of greater meaning or message about culture or society or genderIncreasingly, the merging of high and low culture is seen as a fairly standard way to write as a critic; it’s always been my preferred mode, and luckily there are now...
PS: Oh, wow, Jesus Christ. You are absolutely right about the arc, but I’d never noticed that before.
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