{"id":8121,"date":"2018-08-14T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2018-08-15T08:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:59:49","slug":"andrea-scrima-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/andrea-scrima-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Scrima"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2744\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8121-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/andreascrima3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/andreascrima3.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/andreascrima3.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><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8128 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=640%2C317&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=1024%2C507&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=300%2C149&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=768%2C380&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=324%2C160&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=696%2C345&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=1068%2C529&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?resize=848%2C420&amp;ssl=1 848w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cover-mailing-2-books-medium.jpg?w=1426&amp;ssl=1 1426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>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 an artist, writer, and translator. Scrima\u2019s first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/andreascrima.wordpress.com\/about\/a-lesser-day\/\"><em>A Lesser Day<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>was published in a second edition in 2018 by Spuyten Duyvil Press to coincide with the German edition, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droschl.com\/buch\/wie-viele-tage\/\">Literaturverlag Droschl<\/a> in Graz, Austria. Excerpts from an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/andreascrima.wordpress.com\/category\/all-about-love-nearly\/\">ongoing blog<\/a> titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpCJf6ft9d8&amp;t=19s&amp;frags=pl%2Cwn\"><em>all about love, nearly<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>are included in <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2015\/07\/books\/parataxis-and-ponzi-schemes\"><em>Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Spuyten Duyvil, 2014) and the forthcoming anthology\u00a0<em>Strange Attractors<\/em>\u00a0(University of Massachusetts Press, 2019; edited by Edie Meidav).\u00a0Scrima is currently completing a second novel, titled\u00a0<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>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/statorec.com\/sisters-andrea-scrima\/\"><em>Sisters<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> 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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2012\/10\/books\/kafkas-closest-twin-brother\"><em>The Brooklyn Rail<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicandliterature.org\/reviews\/2018\/7\/7\/fox-review\"><em>Music &amp; Literature<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Quarterly Conversation<\/em>\u00a0(recent essays on <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/rereading-don-delillo-in-dark-times\">Don DeLillo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/on-the-inimitable-lydia-davis\">Lydia Davis<\/a>,\u00a0<em>and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/quarterlyconversation.com\/seiobo-there-below-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-and-music-literature-issue-2\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai<\/a>). She is a contributing editor to the online literary magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/statorec.com\"><em>Statorec<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreascrima.com\/pages\/ATP2.htm\">text installations<\/a>.\u00a0She 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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreascrima.com\/pages\/writing1.htm\">excerpt<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>A Lesser Day<\/em>\u00a0can be read on Scrima\u2019s website, and in-depth\u00a0interviews were featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicandliterature.org\/features\/2018\/4\/25\/patterns-of-erosion-a-conversation-with-andrea-scrima\"><em>Music &amp; Literature<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/schriftstellerin-andrea-scrima-in-amerika-koennte-ich-kaum-mehr-geistig-ueberleben-ld.1404461\"><em>The Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2015\/05\/books\/in-the-gaps-between-things-andrea-scrima-with-leora-skolkin-smith\"><em>The Brooklyn Rail<\/em><\/a>. The excerpt below is taken from Scrima\u2019s novel,\u00a0<em>A Lesser Day<\/em>. The article we discussed in this interview is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/themillions.com\/2018\/07\/the-problem-with-patriotism-a-critical-look-at-collective-identity-in-the-u-s-and-germany.html\"><em>The Problem with Patriotism: A Critical Look at Collective Identity in the U.S. and Germany<\/em><\/a>. Scrima is currently reading Esther Kinsky\u2019s <em>River<\/em>; Agota Kristof\u2019s <em>The Notebook<\/em>; and Ally Klein\u2019s <em>Carter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to Andrea Scrima for <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/andrea-scrima\/\"><em>Praxis Interview Magazine<\/em><\/a> in 2016 about her novel-in-progress <em>Like Lips, Like Skins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>My mind snapped shut like a box. I turn, perplexed: but wasn\u2019t something there a moment ago? Waiting, waiting, looking on as though at a mute child, hoping to pry out a word, or a smile: patience is the essence. The child stands dumbly before me, and I kneel down with a friendly mien. What was that just now, what do you have in your hand, I ask gently. The child\u2019s eyelashes veil its downcast eyes. I saw you putting something in your pocket a moment ago, wouldn\u2019t you like to show me what you have in your pocket? But the child stares at its toes, suspended in a glistening bubble of impunity. Say something, I blurt out, growing agitated, and the child raises a grimy fist to brush the hair out of its eyes, gazing at me in sullen apathy. I hear the sharp edge in my voice, I know this tactic will lead me nowhere, yet I\u2019m vexed, I want to drill the child with questions: what are you hiding, what have you stolen? And hardly an answer, a feeble shrug, and I, growing desperate, <\/em>give it back, give it back<em>, feeling the hand itching to slap the face of this stupid, torpid mind: will you come to your senses, will you give me back what\u2019s mine?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/andreascrima3.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 an artist, writer, and translator. 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