{"id":158671,"date":"2022-04-15T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=158671"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:02:50","slug":"on-girls-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/15\/on-girls-online\/","title":{"rendered":"On Thomas Bernhard and Girls Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_158678\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158678\" class=\"wp-image-158678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm.png 1874w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm-1024x514.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/screen-shot-2022-04-15-at-1.53.03-pm-1536x770.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Kati Kelli&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U_M1Lml-9d0\">My tragic homeschooled past<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re on that old kick again, rereading Geoff Dyer\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780312429461\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of Sheer Rage<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to refresh and resplendorize the senses, but why not go back to the source? It\u2019s never wrong to read Dyer\u2019s Thomas Bernhard (and, after all, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bernhard). It\u2019s never bad to sit at Good Karma Caf\u00e9, in Philadelphia, at a little metal table out front, with Bernhard\u2019s novella <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780226311043\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walking<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reading\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I ask myself, says Oehler, how can so much helplessness and so much misfortune and so much misery be possible? That nature can create so much misfortune and so much palpable horror. That nature can be so ruthless toward its most helpless and pitiable creatures. This limitless capacity for suffering, says Oehler. This limitless capricious will to procreate and then to survive misfortune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while a person pulls up with a carriage and introduces to the air a baby, a little baby who was born three days ago, and stands there holding this: \u201cLily.\u201d She explains as much\u2014the three-day thing\u2014and announces the name to inquirers (the nonreaders \u2026). Three days old only! Why is this little baby taking the air so soon? Why promenade now? This merciless tenderness might permeate the whole atmosphere now, while you read \u201cMy whole life long, I have refused to make a child, said Karrer, Oehler says, to add a new human being over and above the person that I am, I who am sitting in the most horrible imaginable prison and whom science ruthlessly labels as human,\u201d and laugh at combinations, at the caf\u00e9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Caren Beilin<br \/>\n<\/b><i>You can read Sheila Heti\u2019s interview with Caren Beilin on the <\/i>Daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/04\/how-do-we-stop-repeating-ourselves-a-conversation-with-caren-beilin\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A woman is a woman, to borrow from Godard, but once she\u2019s online, argues Joanna Walsh in her new book-length essay,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781839765353\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girl Online: A User Manual<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she becomes a girl. In a series of meditations and \u201cthought experiments\u201d exploring motherhood, blogs, women\u2019s writing, and the meaning of work both on and off the screen, Walsh examines the relationship between looking and being looked at, watching and being watched, that is inherent to both the internet and femininity. \u201cWhat\u2019s a girl to do with communication technology?\u201d she asks. \u201cI mean both, \u2018Why is a girl like a screen?\u2019 and \u2018What is she doing in front of it \/ on it?\u2019 \u201d The answer is clear, Walsh explains, in a passage that draws from Marshall McLuhan\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding Media<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cSelling herself, of course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Rhian Sasseen, engagement editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kati Kelli was a girl online who was just being herself\u2014herself, in this case, being many, many different girls. The videos on her Youtube channel, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC95OHuBp5t_CmoRdmNPFD4A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kati Kelli Girl<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, include sequences, somewhere between sketch comedy and video art, in which she dances \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVId0ZnO4mE&amp;list=PLuAMbvzAA1kRCUuOWGGNvfyWK1sMmUtjo&amp;index=14\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drunkenly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in a pink velour tracksuit and \u201cBeverly Hills mom\u201d wig, dances \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVvqWv741gs&amp;list=PLuAMbvzAA1kRCUuOWGGNvfyWK1sMmUtjo&amp;index=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interpretively<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in a skeleton mask, plays with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0uQdTM6WX9o&amp;list=PLuAMbvzAA1kRCUuOWGGNvfyWK1sMmUtjo&amp;index=21\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barbies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and reads <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uohNR76A4PM&amp;list=PLuAMbvzAA1kRCUuOWGGNvfyWK1sMmUtjo&amp;index=12\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDEEP poetry.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 The rest are largely parodies of the now canonical forms of the girl-bedroom vlog genre: \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EdAapRh1H50\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Have Daddy Issues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dozqjbXM_Wg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 things about Kati Kelli<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SkPvWeDrZpw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Weight Loss Secret<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d But describing her work as merely satirical doesn\u2019t do it justice; Kelli\u2019s experimentally edited monologues and musical numbers are also intimate, surreal, and, like all great comedy, somehow <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">true<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I encountered Kelli via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bam.org\/film\/2022\/girl-internet-show?alttemplate=MobileEvent&amp;m=1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girl Internet Show<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a feature-length \u201cmixtape\u201d of her work curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell that screened Sunday at BAM. That same day, I had visited the Jewish Museum\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thejewishmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/jonas-mekas-the-camera-was-always-running?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjN-SBhCkARIsACsrBz5B9JBXPF9ABZvzkoJaENfsVYwwuRSrP35qOCv8UEfgxoAYYp3Lk8waApqJEALw_wcB\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonas Mekas show<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Whereas the world captured by Mekas\u2019s \u201calways running\u201d camera\u2014flowers, birthday cakes, babies, couples in the park\u2014sometimes verges on a (beautiful) trope of \u201ceveryday life,\u201d Kelli\u2019s hyperperformances feel, always, intrusively, perversely real. \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, could I do <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d she asks, in one video. \u201cI just blinked,\u201d she explains after a second. But we can\u2019t see; she\u2019s wearing huge, reflective sunglasses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schoenbrun and Wippell\u2019s film, lovingly produced after the artist\u2019s untimely passing in 2019, features both Kelli\u2019s Youtube hits and several never-uploaded home movies. \u201cI\u2019m twenty-two, and I\u2019ve done nothing with my life \u2026 except be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ugly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d she whispers, in one of these few (seemingly) unscripted clips. Then she bats her heavily made-up eyelashes, trying out angles. Kelli always has the unmistakable look of a girl on camera who knows she\u2019s very hot\u2014which, of course, almost always involves fearing the opposite. The internal contradictions and multiple personalities that make up a person are explicit themes in her work, which one could characterize as the artistic output of an isolated young girl experimenting with costumes to explore her &#8220;identity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the most beautiful moments of Kelli\u2019s videos are those in which these experiments feel least intentional, when we\u2019re watching someone alone in her bedroom behaving randomly, without a script or audience\u2014when she doesn\u2019t seem to be playing at being anyone<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at all. Sometimes, she\u2019ll pause and look blankly at the camera, as though her teleprompter has frozen. She seems to be waiting for words to come\u2014and when they do, it\u2019s like she\u2019s lip-reading her own on-screen reflection. \u201cI just have a kind of, um, natural chemistry with the camera,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sA7GA2wpmeY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">she says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cSo yeah, like, if you\u2019re wondering, like, Why am I so drawn to her but why, like\u2014why isn\u2019t she <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">good<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014it\u2019s because my talent is so raw that I haven\u2019t figured out how to you know \u2026 whatever.\u201d It\u2019s a huge loss that Kelli didn\u2019t have time to figure it out. Her videos are still up, though, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC95OHuBp5t_CmoRdmNPFD4A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend Thomas Bernhard\u2019s Walking, Girl Online: A User Manual, and Kati Kelli Girl\u2019s video art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68386],"tags":[67827,19499,883,7515,1782],"class_list":["post-158671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reviews-review","tag-featured","tag-joanna-walsh","tag-staff-picks","tag-thomas-bernhard","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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