Linder Sterling The legendary punk artist talks about creative karma, orgasm addicts and orchestrating 13-hour performance art interventions
Radical feminist Linder Sterling has worked in and around the music industry since the late 70s. After meeting Jon Savage in 1976 at an early Sex Pistols gig in Manchester she created the magazine Secret Public with him. The juxtaposed images from porn and women's domestic magazines meant that the magazine was deemed pornographic and some left-wing bookshops wouldn’t stock it, in some kind of beautiful irony, for being too ‘sexist’. She is perhaps most famed for creating the Hand Iron-headed lady who graces the cover of Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict". We caught up with her last saturday to find out about collaborating with Richard Nicoll and Stuart McCallum in a mind-bending 13-hour live performance at the Chisenhale Gallery entitled The Darktown Cakewalk: a performance combining performance art, fashion and music.
Linder Sterling The legendary punk artist talks about creative karma, orgasm addicts and orchestrating 13-hour performance art interventions
Radical feminist Linder Sterling has worked in and around the music industry since the late 70s. After meeting Jon Savage in 1976 at an early Sex Pistols gig in Manchester she created the magazine Secret Public with him. The juxtaposed images from porn and women's domestic magazines meant that the magazine was deemed pornographic and some left-wing bookshops wouldn’t stock it, in some kind of beautiful irony, for being too ‘sexist’. She is perhaps most famed for creating the Hand Iron-headed lady who graces the cover of Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict". We caught up with her last saturday to find out about collaborating with Richard Nicoll and Stuart McCallum in a mind-bending 13-hour live performance at the Chisenhale Gallery entitled The Darktown Cakewalk: a performance combining performance art, fashion and music.
"...the improvisational climate includes both dancers and musicians, each equally influences the other. It’s a continuously evolving democracy: egos are eroded and at the same time, stars are allowed to shine...
...As I get older I begin to realise there's a great difference between influence, homage and plagiarism. I have been guilty of all three and now I am the recipient of all three. Creative karma deals the deck continuously..."
(from the 'DazedDigital' inteview)
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