Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus (1955) is a writer and filmmaker. She is author of novels I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia and books of art and cultural criticism. Her films include Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The Golden Bowl, or, Repression. In 1996, Kraus curated The Chance Event: Three Days in the Desert: Primm, Nevada. She now lives in Los Angeles.

Works

Films

• In Order to Pass, 1982.
• Foolproof Illusion, 1986.
• How to Shoot a Crime, 1987.
• The Golden Bowl or Repression, 1984/88.
• Traveling at Night, 1991.
• Gravity & Grace, 1996.

Fiction

• I Love Dick, New York: Semiotext(e) (Native Agents), 1997, 275 pp, ARG; repr., Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2006, 277 pp.
  • Ai ravu dikku, trans. Augustmoon Ochiishi, Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2000, 283 pp. (Japanese)
  • Amo a Dick, trans. Marcelo Cohen, Barcelona: Alpha Decay, 2013, 339 pp. (Spanish)
  • I love Dick, trans. Alice Zeniter, Paris: Flammarion, 2016, 269 pp. (French)
  • I Love Dick, Modernista, 2016, 288 pp. (Swedish)
  • I love Dick, trans. Evi Hoste and Anniek Kool, Amsterdam: Lebowski, 2016, 271 pp. (Dutch)
  • I love Dick, trans. Kevin Vennemann, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017, 250 pp. (German)
  • I love Dick: roman, trans. Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2017, 302 pp. (Danish)

• Aliens & Anorexia, Brooklyn, NY: Semiotext(e) (Native Agents), 2000, 244 pp; new ed., forew. Palle Yourgrau, 2013, 264 pp. [1] [2] [3]
  • Aliens & anorexia, trans. Patrizia Brighi, Milan: O barra O, 2011. (Italian)

• Torpor, New York: Semiotext(e) (Native Agents), 2006; new ed., intro. Fanny Howe, 2015, 312 pp. [4] [5] [6]
  • Torpor: Roman, trans. Stephanie Wurster, afterw. Karolin Meunier, Berlin: b-books, 2015, 276 pp. (German)

• Summer of Hate, New York: Semiotext(e) (Native Agents), 2012, 256 pp. [7]
  • Verano del odio, Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2014, 269 pp. (Spanish)

Nonfiction

• editor, with Sylvère Lotringer, Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader, New York: Semiotext(e) Journal, 2001, 421 pp.
• Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, New York: Semiotext(e), 2004, 217 pp.
• with Jan Tumlir and Jane McFadden, LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, 2005.
• Where Art Belongs, New York: Semiotext(e) (Interventions), 2011, 176 pp. [8] [9]
• Lost Properties, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2014, 31 pp.
• After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography, MIT Press, 2017, 352 pp. [10]

Interviews

• Chris Kraus, Tisa Bryant, Brooklyn, NY: Belladonna Books, 2009, 71 pp. [11]
• Chris Kraus interviewed by Martin Rumsby, video, 2008.

Literature

• Mira Mattar (ed.), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media on the Work of Chris Kraus, London: Mute, 2015, 134 pp.

Links

• Wikipedia