On the news that her work is studied in college curricula: “They’re teaching that stuff? Uh-oh. Those kind of phrases like ‘gender studies’ or ‘performance art’ kind of give me the creeps. … You don’t have to be writing a book and have people ask ‘Why are you writing a book? You’re a performance artist!’ The thing is that I often start working on one medium, and it turns into a different one. I start working on an opera and it turns into a potato print.”