stop screaming: ideas are the voids of the body … penetrating connexions – self-serving excerpts from Stephen Barber’s The Screaming Body
– Artaud,
Portrait de Paule Thévenin, dit
‘
Paule aux ferrets
,’ 24 May, 1947
Paule Thévenin [Artaud’s friend and literary executor]described to me the process of being drawn by Artaud as that of “being skinned alive.” … Artaud … standing up before a table … would scream, hum and invent new vocabularies … The