{"id":4825,"date":"2016-10-04T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2018-08-15T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:01:53","slug":"andrea-scrima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/andrea-scrima\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Scrima"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4539\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4825-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/andreascrima2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/andreascrima2.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/andreascrima2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4827\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4827 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scrima-smaller.jpg?resize=214%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"scrima-smaller\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scrima-smaller.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scrima-smaller.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scrima-smaller.jpg?resize=732%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scrima-smaller.jpg?resize=624%2C873&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alyssa DeLuccia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Andrea Scrima was born in New York City and studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Hochschule der K\u00fcnste, Berlin, Germany, where she lives and works as a writer and translator. Scrima\u2019s first book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreascrima.com\/pages\/writing1a.htm\"><em>A Lesser Day<\/em><\/a>, was published in 2010 by Spuyten Duyvil Press, Brooklyn, New York; a German edition will be published by Droschl Verlag in 2018. Excerpts from an <a href=\"https:\/\/andreascrima.wordpress.com\/category\/all-about-love-nearly\/\">ongoing blog<\/a> titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpCJf6ft9d8\"><em>all about love, nearly\u00a0<\/em><\/a>are included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readysteadybook.com\/BookReview.aspx?isbn=9780923389956\"><em>Wreckage of Reason II\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Spuyten Duyvil, 2014) and the forthcoming anthology <em>Strange Attractors<\/em> (edited by Edie Meidav).\u00a0Scrima is currently completing a second novel, titled <em>Like Lips, Like Skins<\/em>. An earlier version of this novel was awarded Second Prize in the Glimmer Train Fall 2010 Fiction Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.co\/bYOd2xv\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4828 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Lesser-Day-smaller.jpg?resize=300%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a-lesser-day-smaller\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Lesser-Day-smaller.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Lesser-Day-smaller.jpg?w=567&amp;ssl=1 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scrima was the recipient of a literature fellowship from the Berlin Council on Science, Research, and the Arts in Berlin, Germany (Senatsverwaltung f\u00fcr Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, 2004) and won a 2007 National Hackney Literary Award for <a href=\"https:\/\/statorec.com\/sisters-andrea-scrima\/\"><em>Sisters,<\/em><\/a> a short story from an ongoing collection. In the spring of 2011 she took part in a writing fellowship at the Ledig House \/ Art Omi residency program in Ghent, New York. Her literary criticism appears regularly in <em>The Brooklyn Rail,<\/em> <em>Music &amp; Literature,<\/em> and <em>The Quarterly Conversation<\/em> (recent essays on: <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/on-the-inimitable-lydia-davis\">Lydia Davis<\/a>, <em>The Collected Stories<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/seiobo-there-below-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-and-music-literature-issue-2\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai<\/a>, <em>Seiobo There Below<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2012\/10\/books\/kafkas-closest-twin-brother\">Robert Walser<\/a>, <em>The Walk<\/em>). She has been senior editor of the online arts journal <em>Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her decision to focus on literature, Scrima worked as a professional artist for many years, incorporating short fiction pieces into large-scale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreascrima.com\/pages\/ATP2.htm\">text installations.<\/a> She has received numerous awards for her artistic work, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1989\/1990) and the Lingen Art Prize (Kunstverein Lingen, Germany; 1996) and has been represented in exhibitions at Franklin Furnace in New York, the Contemporary Art Center in Moscow, Kunst Haus in Dresden, the Museum f\u00fcr Neue Kunst in Freiburg, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, and many other institutions and commercial galleries internationally.<\/p>\n<p>An<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreascrima.com\/pages\/writing1.htm\"> excerpt<\/a> from <em>A Lesser Day<\/em> can be read on Scrima\u2019s website, and an in-depth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2015\/05\/books\/in-the-gaps-between-things-andrea-scrima-with-leora-skolkin-smith\">interview<\/a> on the book was featured in <em>The Brooklyn Rail<\/em>. \u00a0The excerpt below, taken from Scrima\u2019s new novel,\u00a0<em>Like Lips, Like Skins<\/em>, is a description of the artistic process and ties in to the interview. Scrima is currently reading Ann Quin\u2019s <em>Passages<\/em>; Nathalie Sarraute\u2019s <em>Childhood<\/em>; and Violette Leduc\u2019s <em>La Batarde<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Making art was a form of archaeology, of excavating the inscrutable. It revealed itself through fragments, through their reconstruction. Why this dot, this smear\u2014why did they resonate in such an unmistakable way? It was essential to recognize these events, to understand the patterns of their repetition and to narrow them down to a visual vocabulary. These were the elements at our disposal, there were never more than a handful of them, and they remained irreducible. Process was everything: there had to be a truthfulness to it, a conjunction between the act and the impulse that had propelled it, an economy in which every mark stood for something\u2014not as a means to an end, but at the very moment it was being made. It required a suspension of conscious will; it was about locating one\u2019s inner sensorium and learning to pay attention to it, to trust it. It was the point of convergence between the self and the world: the place where, if only for an instant, a universal language might be revealed. I stepped back to view the large canvas. Subtle shadows were visible across the white expanse now, caused by the topography of the scraped surface beneath it. Swirls of pigment had come to rest in the turpentine on the floor, and as I bent down to spread a few sheets of newspaper over the turbid puddle, my reflection bent down with me and reached its fingertips up toward my outstretched hand.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/andreascrima2.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAndrea Scrima was born in New York City and studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Hochschule der K\u00fcnste, Berlin, Germany, where she lives and works as a writer and translator. 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