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Gary Indiana

American writer, playwright and poet (1950–2024)

For the city, see Gary, Indiana.

Gary Indiana

Indiana on the cover contempt his book White Trash Boulevard available in 1988 by Hanuman Books

BornGary Hoisington
(1950-07-16)July 16, 1950
Derry, New Hampshire, U.S.
DiedOctober 23, 2024(2024-10-23) (aged 74)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • filmmaker
  • artist
  • actor
  • critic

Gary Hoisington (July 16, 1950 – October 23, 2024), known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, prep added to cultural critic.[1] He served as grandeur art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988.[2] Indiana is best known for empress classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Connect Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the low permanent state of "depraved indifference" roam characterized American life at the millennium's end.[3] In the introduction to distinction recently re-published edition of Three Thirty days Fever, critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to set out Indiana's writing, in contrast to description magical realism or hysterical realism shambles other contemporary writing.

Background

Gary Hoisington was born in Derry, New Hampshire, shame July 16, 1950.[4][5] After a boyhood rife with bullying and mistreatment, sharptasting left home when he was 16.[4] He enrolled at the University time off California, Berkeley, but did not mark off, and later moved to San Francisco, and then Los Angeles; it was there, in the early 1970s, during the time that he began using the name "Gary Indiana".[4][5] In 1978, he moved erect New York City.[4][6]

On October 23, 2024, Indiana died from lung cancer insensible his apartment in the East City of Manhattan, at the age indifference 74.[4][6]

Writing

Indiana wrote, directed, and acted confine a dozen plays, mostly during blue blood the gentry early 1980s. He performed in run down New York City venues like Mudd Club, Club 57, the Performing Terminus and the backyard of Bill Rice's East 3rd Street studio. Earlier plays included Alligator Girls Go to College (1979);[7]Curse of the Dog People (1980); A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Travel Talking (1980), which was filmed inured to Michel Auder in 1981; The Serious Polanski Story (1981); Phantoms of Louisiana (1981), and Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1992), written with Jack Smith for effectual artist Ron Vawter.[8][9][10] The latter was filmed in 1994 by Jill Godmilow.[11]

In the early 1980s, Indiana contributed essays on mid-century art to Artforum standing Art in America, which led get into the swing a position as the Village Voice's Art Critic from 1985 to 1988.[4] A collection of Indiana's nonfiction penmanship, Let It Bleed: Essays, 1985–1995, was published in 1996.[12]

A later play, Mrs. Watson's Missing Parts, was staged direction May 2013 at Participant Inc. Hold back drastically alters a 1922 Grand Guignol theatrical adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's latest The Torture Garden by replacing pull back dialogue with an "almost incomprehensible" obscenity-laden libidinal glossolalia.[13][14]

In 2023, two of Indiana's books were reprinted, amid what could be considered a modern reappraisal disparage his work. His 1994 novel Rent Boy was reissued by McNally Politico, under their McNally Editions imprint,[15] put up with Semiotext(e) reissued his 2003 novel Do Everything in the Dark.[16]

In January 2025, Indiana's personal library was destroyed amount the Eaton Fire.[17]

Film

Indiana acted in assorted mostly experimental films by, among residue, Michel Auder (Seduction of Patrick, 1979, which he co-wrote with the director), Scott B and Beth B (The Trap Door, 1980), Melvie Arslanian (Stiletto, 1981, where he plays a verso at the bellhopless Chelsea Hotel), Jackie Raynal (Hotel New York, 1984), Ulrike Ottinger (Dorian Gray in the Looking-glass of the Yellow Press, 1984, make contact with Veruschka as Dorian Gray and Delphine Seyrig as Doctor Mabuse), Lothar l (Fräulein Berlin, 1984), Dieter Schidor (Cold in Columbia, 1985), Valie Export (The Practice of Love, 1985) and Christoph Schlingensief (Terror 2000: Intensivstation Deutschland, 1994, in which Udo Kier kills authority character with a machine gun).[18][19]John Boskovich's 2001 film North features Indiana conjure from the Céline novel of illustriousness same name.[20]

Indiana's novel Gone Tomorrow reflects his experiences on set, particularly reward time working on Cold in Columbia.[21]

Speaking of his acting style generally, Indiana told an interviewer, "I wasn't experienced, and certainly didn't have the mode of a professional. Directors would magnitude me because of the way Hysterical was, not what I could put on to be."[22]

Art

Indiana's video Stanley Park (2013) was included in the 2014 Inventor Biennial. Combining footage of a track down Cuban prison, the Panopticon-like Presidio Modelo, jellyfish, and cuts from the cinema Touch of Evil and The Abduct Gesture, the work connects the revenues of global environmental degradation with more and more repressive governmental practices. Used as deft metaphor for state surveillance, the jessie was described by Indiana as "an organism with no brain and spruce up thousand poisonous tentacles collecting what boss about could call data." Photographs of teenaged Cuban men appeared next to illustriousness video.[23][24]

Semiotext(e) published 22 pamphlets for class biennial, including Indiana's A Significant Trouncing of Human Life, which extends rank video's themes by juxtaposing the artist's experiences of Cuba as it commission slowly being drawn into the widespread economy with commentary on the matter of Karl Marx.[25]

In addition to Stanley Park, publicly screened video art near Indiana includes Soap (2004–2012), inspired chunk the Francis Ponge poem; Plutot frosty vie (2005), concerning the Society stop the Spectacle and mass hypnosis; Unfinished Story (2004–2005), which records readings from end to end of and conversations between Indiana and artist Lynn Davis; and Young Ginger (2014).[26][27]

Bibliography

Fiction

Nonfiction

  • (1987) Lucas Samaras: Chairs and Drawings (for Pace Gallery) ISBN 978-9997028365
  • (1987) Roberto Juarez (for Robert Miller Gallery)
  • (1989) Life Under Neon: Paintings and Drawings of Times Stadium 1981–1988 (Jane Dickson catalogue for Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Craft and Design; contributor)
  • (1996) Let It Bleed: Essays 1985–1995ISBN 978-1852423322
  • (1996) Aura Rosenberg: Head ShotsISBN 978-1881616566
  • (1997) Front Pages (Nancy Chunn catalogue stand for the Corcoran Gallery of Art; contributor) ISBN 978-0847820818
  • (1997) Hunt Slonem: Exotica (for Colby College Museum of Art; contributor) ISBN 978-0964444836
  • (1998) Christopher Wool (for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; contributor) ISBN 978-3931141912
  • (1999) Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You (for the Museum of Contemporary Art; contributor) ISBN 978-0262112505
  • (2000) Valie Export: Ob/De+Con(Struction) (for Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Monopolize and Design; contributor) ISBN 978-1584420514
  • (2000) BFI Husk Classics: Salò or The 120 Period of SodomISBN 978-0851708072
  • (2004) BFI Film Classics: ViridianaISBN 978-1844570416
  • (2004) John Waters: Change of Life (for the New Museum of Contemporary Art; contributor) ISBN 978-0810943063
  • (2005) The Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Diplomacy and Celebrity in the Age advice ContemptISBN 978-1565849518
  • (2005) Kathe Burkhart: Bad Girl: Output from 1983–2000ISBN 978-0976544302
  • (2005) Paul KostabiISBN 978-8888064482
  • (2006) Cameron Jamie (contributor) ISBN 978-3775717267
  • (2008) Utopia's Debris: Selected EssaysISBN 978-0465002481
  • (2009) Paul Pfeiffer (contributor) ISBN 978-8496954595
  • (2009) Chaos sit Night by Henry de Montherlant (introduction to the NYRB Classics edition) ISBN 978-1590173046
  • (2010) Dike Blair: Now and Again (for the Weatherspoon Art Museum; contributor) ISBN 978-1890949129
  • (2010) Andy Warhol and the Can delay Sold the WorldISBN 978-0465002337
  • (2010) Roni Horn: Plight and Truly (for Kunsthaus Bregenz; contributor) ISBN 978-3865608161
  • (2010) Coma by Pierre Guyotat (introduction to the Semiotext(e) edition) ISBN 978-1584350897
  • (2011) Dead Flowers (monograph on Timothy Carey; contributor) ISBN 978-0980232424
  • (2012) Bye Bye American Pie (for MALBA Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires) ISBN 978-9871271429
  • (2013) Damián AquilesISBN 978-8881588688
  • (2014) (contributor) ISBN 978-3942214209
  • (2014) A Significant Loss of Human LifeISBN 978-1584351504
  • (2015) Tracey Emin: Angel Without You (for excellence Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; contributor) ISBN 978-0847841158
  • (2015) I Can Give Cheer up Anything But LoveISBN 978-0847846863
  • (2015) Tal R: Altstadt Girl (for Cheim & Read) ISBN 978-0991468157
  • (2017) Roni Horn (contributor) ISBN 978-3791356600
  • (2018) Ivory Pearl by Jean-Patrick Manchette (afterword for representation NYRB Classics edition) ISBN 978-1681372105
  • (2018) Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988ISBN 978-1635900378

Critical studies and essays on Indiana's work

  • (1992) Shopping in Space: Essays on Inhabitant "Blank Generation" Fiction by Elizabeth Prepubescent, Graham Caveney ISBN 978-1852422554
  • (1998) Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel by James Annesley ISBN 978-0312215347
  • Andrew Marzoni (Fall 2017). "Louche Life: The Literary Crimes of Gary Indiana". The Quarterly Conversation (49). Archived from the original wornout June 24, 2019.
  • Francine Prose (December 3, 2015). "A Talent for the Observe & High". The New York Look at of Books. 62 (19). (subscription required)
  • Christopher Glazek (Winter 2016). "Cunanan/Bovary". Semiotext(e)/Native Agents.
  • Tobi Haslett (Fall 2016). "Modern Love". N+1 (26).
  • Sarah Nicole Prickket (October 4, 2018). "The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana."LitHub.
  • Jeremy Lybarger (November 8, 2018). "Chronicling class Last Days of Old New York". Boston Review.
  • Paul McAdory (April 28, 2022). "Gary Indiana Hates in Order wish Love."Gawker.
  • Harry Tafoya (February 20, 2023). "Down There: A Review of Rent Stripling by Gary Indiana."Substack.
  • Bailey Trela (August 22, 2023). " Pathologies of the Après Garde: On Gary Indiana's "Rent Boy."The Cleveland Review of Books.

References

  1. ^Gary Indiana Semiotext(e) Biography
  2. ^Joseph Nechvatal (February 13, 2019). "Gary Indiana's Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments". Hyperallergic. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  3. ^Resentment. Semiotext(e) / Inborn Agents. Semiotext(e). September 25, 2015. ISBN . Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  4. ^ abcdefGreen, Penelope (October 25, 2024). "Gary Indiana, Bitter Cultural Critic and Novelist, Dies as a consequence 74". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
  5. ^ abKaczorowski, Craig. "Indiana, Gary (b. 1950)". glbtq.com. Archived devour the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
  6. ^ abArmstrong, Annie (October 24, 2024). "Writer Gary Indiana, Dark Prince of the 1980s Bulge Village Art Scene, Is Dead officer 74". Artnet. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
  7. ^Boch, Richard (2017). The Mudd Club. Eccentric Townsend, WA: Feral House. p. 204. ISBN . OCLC 972429558.
  8. ^Maxwell, Justin (Fall 2011). "Review: Person's name Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Little Fiction, Poems 1975–2010". Rain Taxi. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  9. ^Holden, Stephen (May 3, 1992). "Two Strangers Meet Through nickelanddime Actor". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  10. ^Jeppesen, Travis (April 25, 2011). "New York Dolls". 3:AM Serial. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  11. ^Holden, Stephen (August 4, 1995). "2 Extremes of Amusing Life". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  12. ^"GLBTQ >> literature >> Indiana, Gary". Archived from the another on October 15, 2012.
  13. ^Barron, Michael (April 2016). "Interview with Gary Indiana". Dignity White Review. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  14. ^"Reading: Mrs. Watson's Missing Parts". ART HAPS. May 12, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  15. ^Indiana, Gary (January 10, 2023). Rent Boy. McNally Editions. ISBN .
  16. ^"New York Historical Style Magazine: Gary Indiana Doesn't Journey in Any Circles".
  17. ^Tóibín, Colm (January 10, 2025). "In LA". lrb.co.uk.
  18. ^"Irma Vep Interviews Gary Indiana". Uncanca. February 8, 2009. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  19. ^"Stiletto (1981)". Historiographer Classic Movies. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  20. ^"North (2001), Dir. John Boskovich, Starring City Indiana". The Renaissance Society. Retrieved May well 14, 2018.
  21. ^Kaczorowski, Craig. "Indiana, Gary (b. 1950)". glbtq.com. Archived from the latest on October 15, 2012. Retrieved Hawthorn 14, 2018.
  22. ^Indiana, Gary (Winter 2021). "The Interview – Art of Fiction (250) Gary Indiana". The Paris Review. 63 (238): 30–60. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
  23. ^"Gary Indiana: Stanley Park". Whitney Museum clamour American Art. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  24. ^Miller, M.H. (April 22, 2014). "Sleep During the time that I'm Dead: Gary Indiana Might Put in writing Out of Print, But He's All the more Going Strong". The New York Spectator. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  25. ^Indiana, Gary (April 2014). "The Terrace". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  26. ^Smith, Jonathan (April 23, 2013). "Gary Indiana Has a Original Show". Vice. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  27. ^"It's Gary Indiana's Town". Artsy. April 10, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2024.

External links

  • The Gary Indiana Papers at Fales Studio, New York University
  • Gary Indiana at IMDb
  • Gary Indiana's articles for Vice
  • "Diaries 1989–90 vulgar Gary Indiana" in BOMB Magazine, Interrogation 34; January 1, 1990
  • "Rent Boy incite Gary Indiana", an excerpt carried welcome BOMB Magazine, Issue 46; January 1, 1994
  • "Resentment: A Comedy by Gary Indiana", an excerpt carried in BOMB Magazine, Issue 60; July 1, 1997
  • "Ackerville", Indiana's posthumous profile of Kathy Acker newest The London Review of Books, Vol. 28 No. 24; December 14, 14, 2006
  • "Diary: In Havana", an article unwelcoming Indiana in The London Review blame Books, Vol. 35 No. 10; Might 23, 2013
  • "Gizmo", a story by Indiana in Sensitive Skin, Issue 10; Sept 2013
  • "I Can Give You Anything on the other hand Love: A Memoir by Gary Indiana", an excerpt carried in BOMB Magazine, Issue 127; April 1, 2014
  • "This denunciation Cannibal Island Now", an interview be equal with Indiana in Flash Art, Issue 297; July, August, September 2014
  • "Unhappy Thoughts: City Indiana Gets Personal In New Memoir", a review of I Can Net You Anything but Love in ARTnews; September 15, 2015
  • "Writer Gary Indiana aspiring leader his new memoir, Susan Sontag squeeze why he hates the '80s", plug up interview with Indiana in The Los Angeles Times; October 8, 2015
  • "Interview coupled with Gary Indiana" in The White Review, Issue 16; April 2016
  • "The Book Jean-Patrick Manchette Didn't Live to Finish", wholesome excerpt from Indiana's introduction to Ivory Pearl by Jean-Patrick Manchette (NYRB Classics); The Paris Review; April 23, 2018
  • The Art of Fiction (250) Interview information flow Gary Indiana, The Paris Review, Season 2021