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An antinatalist activist with a biting humour, founder of the “Church of Euthanasia”, the American artist is celebrating her 60th birthday with her first major retrospective in France, at the Confort Moderne in Poitiers.
It is in an oven that we meet Chris Korda, at the bar of the Modern Comfort (Poitiers, July 11, 30 degrees), at a door of the hall which houses his first retrospective of such magnitude. The dodger is even worse, a few days later, when we listen to the conversation again to transcribe it (Berlin, July 19, 39 degrees). The computer is overheating and the fingers sticky with sweat struggle to follow the rate of speech of the American artist, skidding on the keyboard. The body disgorges, the brain capitulates. These words that Chris hammers out with all the energy of his soft voice haunt us like a refrain: “I told you so !” Not only did she tell us so, but she yelled at us through all possible channels, starting with this legendary banner carried around from demonstration to demonstration, available in stickers, badges, T-shirts, white capitals on a background black, no punctuation, no frills: “SAVE THE PLANET KILL YOURSELF”, or “SAVE THE PLANET SUICIDE YOURSELF”.
Intercommunicating cells
Chris Korda is 60 years old. Thirty years ago, she founded the Church of Euthanasia. She is an artist, anti-natalist activist, musician, coder, researcher, transgender, vegan, erudite, biting, talkative, impossible to sum up because arboreal, curiosity made flesh. Like a website generously stuffed with hypertext links, the exhibition devoted to him by Modern Comfort, put together hand in hand with the Parisian gallery Goswell R…