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The text interrogates crying as material and action rather than symbol, drawing on theory and artists, while examining how film and performance cultivate “real” tears on camera. It also considers how gender shapes the possibility of creating work about tears.","Hot Tears  \nWhy It Is So Hard to Make Artwork About Crying  \nComing to the weeping itself, cover the face decorously, using both hands, palms inward. Children are to cry with the sleeve of the dress or shirt pressed against the face, preferably in a corner of the room. Average duration of the cry, three minutes.  \n—Julio Cortázar, Instructions on How to Cry, Historias de Cronopiosy de Famas  \nOn October 3rd, 2013 something terrible happened to me. A few days later it got much worse. I wept like weeping was keeping me alive and I wept like it was the end of my life. It was the kind of crying that you do when your world is changed suddenly and irreparably in a way that is out of your control, not your fault, and you didn’t see coming. I cried more than I didn’t for the many months that followed, siphoning a seemingly bottomless reservoir, often waking myself up in the middle of the night with tight cheeks and a warm, wet shirt collar. It’s hard to imagine feelings like this ever ebbing, though of course everything does. My mother says: If it’s not over, it’s not the end.  \nI became interested in crying as a subject for art. How could I not? It absorbed the majority of my time and energy well into the following year. I avoided it as an “idea” at first, feeling that to “create something” of the experience would be a predictable flattening out, a making-cute of my own desperate and desperately  \nprivate situation. I feared turning my pain into a metaphor for my pain. Roland Barthes pondered a similar aversion in the journal he kept after the death of his beloved mother, Henriette: “I don’t want to talk about it, for fear of making literature out of it—or without being sure of not doing so—although as a matter of fact literature originates with these truths.”  \nAlthough as a matter of fact literature originates with these truths... I relented. I began to think about how we cry in the face of art, and vice  \nversa. A few notes down in my own journal from this time, faithfully re-recorded here:  \nCrying: as ends or a means in A—R—T?  \nCan tears be harnessed as material? Can crying be an action rather than a symbol? (Kiki Smith’s emissions)  \nNotable: emotions are called “feelings”/ internal touch  \nABJECTing...exuding liquid uncontrollably from body (satisfying, gross, entire) .  \nCan WOMEN make work about crying?  \nTear, rhythms with near & tear,  \nrhythms with bear. Something here?  \nThe correct unit of ‘relatable’ sadness when making work is   . Things we shed: tears, light, blood (partially buried woodshed)  \nWhy not make work about it?????  \nThe experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe—whose 2014 film  \nCarmen Winant (b. 1983, San Francisco) is a writer, artist, and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH.  \n6 Carmen Winant  \n1  \nCry Baby. Dir. John Waters. Perf. Johnny Depp (1990) .  \nHistoria Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part 2: The Crying Game I would encounter a year and a half after scribbling that list—recently wrote me in an email as a part of a larger exchange. He said,“I had a crying session in 1999 that was euphoric; I decided then I wanted to stop shutting down those pleasures. The film was a desire to address and overcome the pathologization of tears. 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