Christen Clifford

New York

feminist performance artist, mother, writer, co-curate Experiments&Disorders literary series at Dixon Place,teach at The New School, &makin’ a movie.

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Elisabeth Subrin at Participant Inc

Jan 31, 2025 | cultbytes.com | Christen Clifford

THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS was released in the US in 1973. A film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Marlon Brando said to be the greatest actor of his time. The director and actor conspired against the 19-year-old lead actress, Maria Schneider, and manipulated her into a nonconsensual sex scene[1] that was not in the script. Schneider was asked about it in an interview in 1983.
Holler Rat, a Memoir as a Performance by Anya Liftig

Oct 17, 2023 | cultbytes.com | Christen Clifford

Between 2012 and 2018, both Anya Liftig and I were active in the Bushwick performance art scene centered around Panoply Lab. She was working a lot and performing all over the world and then, suddenly, I didn’t see her around anymore. In August, Abrams published her memoir Holler Rat. I was curious to read it to find out why she had left the scene. In the witty book that oscillates between auto-fiction and performance, I found out why, and more.