Stephanie LaCava

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Stephanie LaCava |Jake Nevins

Last Monday, I walked up seven flights of stairs to find 80-year-old artist Michel Auder at work in his Manhattan studio. Sometimes called the “video laureate,” Auder is known for his filmic poetry. Born in France, he was always captivated by the New York scene, traveling between the two places. His commitment to video began as soon as handheld cameras became widely available. His first: a Sony Portapak in 1969.

Sep 11, 2024 | versobooks.com | Stephanie LaCava

I want you to see me here as your stand-up comic, clown incarnate. Some of you look upset. Did you think this would be serious? It is serious. More so (now). Do you know what can resist attack, go on the defensive and offensive at once: comedy. Unproductive specialists, like me, play dumb to go undetected. Tragedy is harder to control, comes hard and fast and, when plotted or narrativized, is never real. Interpreters of history are less clear than its clowns, because they care.

Apr 3, 2024 | versobooks.com | Stephanie LaCava

I re-read Notice when I was in rehab in Connecticut, at a place with stone geese finials and a brick chapel. I was there getting off drugs, medicine, some would say. It was a joke to think I was clean. The doctor called some of pills, the “analog” version of others. I didn’t know what that could possibly mean. Still, this is the analog version of an old story. It happened without electronics, in a controlled environment, with shitty food and insane company. Not unlike certain families.

Mar 31, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Stephanie LaCava |Jake Nevins

I first found out about Fernanda Eberstadt’s Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant through Benjamin Moser, who always knows what’s good. Inside the book were many of my own old touchstones, like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Henry Darger, alongside other saints and martyrs. The narrative tells more than one story in parallel: there’s Eberstadt’s own life experience as a young New Yorker in the 70s art scene set against historical anecdotes of flesh and blood body as a site of resistance.

Nov 3, 2023 | interviewmagazine.com | Stephanie LaCava |Eloise King-Clements

Danish by birth, Michella Bredahl now lives in Montreuil just outside of Paris. The 35-year-old artist has been shooting pictures since her mother gave her a camera at the age of seven. It’s only this year that her work has begun to be exhibited publicly, alongside the release of her first book, Love Me Again. Aside from being a friend, I have also been her subject. Bredahl first contacted me a few years ago.