What the Hell did I Just Read?

Stephanie Young's Picture Palace has got to be one of the most experimental works I have ever read. I didn't quite understand how I should read it (which I think is the point of most experimental works), but after searching the artist for any background info (something I hardly ever do, and still can't believe I did it this time) I found this youtube link to Stephanie Young reading her work....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vPYhkwb3Ks This reading jostled with my own perceptions of performance writing, which ached for some conjunction, somehow. I found the book to be textually and syntactically awry/askew (something I wish to aim for in the coming days/weeks/(fuck.it.)/years. I still am faced with a little apprehension to ther composition of Young's dense segments of text, but who am I to argue with creative genius? What I did find myself completely compelled by was the visual and textual clash towards the end of the piece. This section took me back to a question/conversation I asked/had --/with Konrad Steiner about the performative possibilities of text alone or conjoined with visuals. The way Young works with these elements is definitely a variation of those possibilities I had in mind. It also reminds me of a few considerations brought up in class namely, the relationship between text and performance. Here in Young's work we can see that the text as a an explicit part of the performance wrestles with the visuals as an explicit part of the performance. There is a shift in dynamics as the text imposes itself on the visual as both a caption and an embossed aesthetic. The oddball images/syntax's disables the visuals from creating any situated effect. And I love it! This may be a way in which I challenge my own works in the future after I decide how to properly destabilize my own natural modes of writing...