Talker #5: Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker

This issue of Giles Bailey’s Talker is a transcript of an event hosted by the writer Kathy Acker at the ICA, London in February 1987 in which the performer Spalding Gray discussed his work. A founding member of the Wooster Group, Spalding Gray had at the time of the conversation just completed filming Jonathan Demme’s Swimming in Cambodia, a movie adaptation of one of the autobiographical monologue performances he was famous for.