Theresa Patzschke: Gazing and cutting

There was nothing. And simultaneously, of course, there was everything. It was as if she had jumped headfirst into water with an opened skull and swum both into the depths and towards the surface of this water at the same time. Also, she was an overripe fig dripping so perversely as only figs can, or breasts or cocks or pussies, and as fig flesh she lolled about perversely in people’s mouths. Everything moaned.

Theresa Patzschke is a German writer and musician, who lives in Berlin. Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Starship and Wetter Magazin as well as in exhibition catalogues, and has been performed at Volksbühne Berlin and KW Institute for Contemporary Art among other venues. She has also published in Kaleidoscope, Interview Magazine, SSENSE, and 032c. Besides her musical solo projects, she is cofounder of the band Recycling Plastic Inevitable and plays in a duo with artist Tobias Spichtig. She also makes collages.