Philippa Snow
In her first book, ‘Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment’ culture critic and friend of LWLies Philippa Snow examines the fascinating, sometimes disturbing link between pain and performance, and deftly links together the likes of Jackass and Marina Abramović, exploring the compulsion to destroy in order to create. We spoke to her about high-low cultural interrogation and what makes Jackass art.
Snow: I still haven’t figured when I was about 14, which I guess would have been when the first film came out. I have a really vivid memory of her talking about it in a chemistry lesson, and my being like, ‘Oh, so it’s like performance art, then?’ I just never lost the interest in doing something that married those two things.
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