Annie Kaye is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in the various realms of studio art, writing, film, performance, and podcasting. Her work is an expression of her experience as a survivor living with dissociative identity disorder. She uses the modality of collage across mediums. Her work might be viewed through the various lenses of creative memoir, creative nonfiction, philosophy,, and poetry.
As Clarice Lispector said, in a television interview in 1977, “When I am not writing, I am dead.”
Can writing a transform a person?
Absolutely.
Because writing can transform a person’s life.
Anyone can assume the title of artist.
It’s true that I’m a very different person now than I used to be.
A new cycle is going round.
There’s a notion of rambling, but limited time.
Lost time. Time locked away. Time as a loop.
To this end- I’ve ben doin g strange things in my writing and my art. Experimenting. Straddling lines together. But also- pushing them apart.
One of my hopes for the work, is to demonstrate the fragility of the norms and conventions ruling our social order. And then- how easily they can give rise to something dark- and frightening.
My method is a bit Surrealist, perhaps. It speaks to the ambivalence of existence. It’s about endlessness. And ruin. And death.
And HOPE.