New Criticals


RC: Are you not concerned that you may just be adding to the defeatism? Some might regard your anonymity as cowardly.

KB: We see what you're doing here - the dirty work of neoliberalism. Attack the whiner - to discredit and undermine their genuine experience. The truth is that the current political oeuvre makes it impossible to act responsibly in society - this work is a poetic response, a symptom of one multiple artist's allergy to the current conditions. We are surprised that people are not constantly vomiting with fear and disgust in rural ditches and the gutters of our city streets.

RC: You have been quiet for a while. Where have you been?

KB: When I first became multiple it was an ecstatic experience, my multi-personal Ur-moment, a mystical one-ing - then we lost all drive to take care of our art identity. We just got on with life. You know, domestic concerns. In a sense, we Karens are the only true artist, because we just do the work which is absolutely necessary for the whole world (separate from ideas of career, status, worldly survival). We are a true net art saint!

RC: Thanks Karen

KB: Please could you put my answers back and forth through online translation tool a few times - to disguise our written style?

RC: Good plan. How about Russian in honour of Netochka Nezvanova?