Parafictional tendencies: Carrie Lambert-Beatty in conversation with Kostis Stafylakis

"If parafiction started at the end of the 1990s, then it's an interesting phenomenon that arises at a particular point within contemporary art. But now I think it has been part of this thing we call 'contemporary art' from the beginning [c.1989]. That leads me to describe it differently: parafiction is the way contemporary art takes on the epistemic dimensions of the transformative crises of this period."