Your writing, particularly when you engage elements of your own experience such as the South, is outstanding. Have you, or have you ever considered, producing works that have a strong element of the written word?
Why thank yeww! But no, I’ve never ever considered writing seriously, or using the written word in any of my work. I do and have used spoken word. One particular sound installation, Personals, was based on a personal ad that I placed the year after my lover died, when I still wasn’t ready to be dating, but felt compelled to organize my desire in some way that elicited a response (although I did end up meeting and seriously dating quite a few wonderful fellows). I recorded all of the responses, which were amazing–so much desire and longing directed at me, based on a frivolous one-paragraph description of a little twinkie seeking an older mate with hairy forearms, before the internet and without a picture even! I can’t imagine writing stuff like that. I do have a novel in me, to be sure, but how to get it out of me? Augustin Burrows’ recent Running With Scissors seemed close to my own point of view and how I would imagine writing a book, but who knows… So if I were to do something with writing, it would be something autobiographical and obsessive, all about my intense love affairs with fat hairy guys, with pages and pages of intimate anatomical details, and most likely low-brow.