Collection: Joan Katz

A collection of publications, texts and ephemera connected to Joan Katz, one of the deliberately unstable identities circulating around Richard Prince’s practice. Prince has described Katz as a pseudonym or “fake name,” while his own website presents her as a Prague-based journalist, longtime acquaintance and collaborator — an ambiguity that appears entirely consistent with his interest in invented authorship.

For The New Rare, Katz is interesting precisely because the attribution refuses to settle: writer, collaborator, persona, alias and narrative device become difficult to separate.

A name enters circulation. Authorship becomes less certain.