Felix Bernstein
Felix Bernstein stages psychofictional scenes as lectures, essays, satire, and melodrama, using errant bodies of imagery and discourse to bore holes through crusty ideals. He is the author of Burn Book (Nightboat, 2016) and Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry (Insert Blanc Press, 2015), and director, with Gabe Rubin, of Madame de Void (2018). He has performed at institutions including Artists Space, LA MOCA, LUMA Westbau, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
I studied with Cole from 2010 to 2013 and taught alongside her this past summer in Bard’s Language and Thinking program. It’s hard to describe Cole’s mesmerizing way of teaching, translating, and theorizing because she followed no method besides fidelity to each writer’s idiom.
I want to think about Foreman’s use of the word “hysteria” (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, founded in 1968), which in ancient Greece referred to the diagnosis of a wandering womb in search of an outlet, often getting congested in the throat on its way out of the mouth.
