Gothamist: Artist Presumed to Have Killed Himself After Girlfriend's Suicide

xulux

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:11:32 -0500

Scientology is a red herring. She had an active imagination and was not adverse to mischievous flights of fancy. When Andre Breton confessed to leaving the door to his hotel room ajar before he went to bed in the hope he would wake up the next morning to find a marvelous woman next to him, it might have been Tracy he was thinking of. Much of her bluster and subterfuge--like Andre Breton's--was not a result of malicious deceit, but disatisfaction with day-in-day-out reality. But there is more than a little truth to comment #28. There I did it--I have spoken ill of the dead. Now I'm going to hell forever.

guest

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:19:34 -0500

Many people may remember Jeremy as the MC and roadie for the Washington, DC punk band the Nation of Ulysses. But that was 18 years ago.

guest

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:05:56 -0500

http://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/2007/07/24/bulletin_theresa_duncan_not_ye.php

guest

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:11:27 -0500

Theresa was beautiful, witty and had a keen eye for other people's talent. She was perhaps the most accomplished self promoter of the 90s. She was not however, kind to most people. Insecure, arrogant and fixated on vanity, she was a flavor best enjoyed from a distance. I do give her credit for going out with a literary flair. How she would delight in Jeremy's walk into the sea. She would see it as a tribute worthy of her bloated ego. Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!

guest

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:33:38 -0500

There is a lot more to this story. I just hope that the police continue to dig into Theresa's background and certain people she knew. Anna Gaskell would be a good place to start.

guest

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:13:33 -0500

Wow. There are some sick, callous, worthless scumbags posting to this thread. "good riddance?" Burn in hell, scum.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:43:54 -0500

Please--stop the conspiracy theories now. The only thing that Theresa's May 13, 2007 blog entry shows is that her mental state had gotten so bad that she couldn't even put together a coherent narrative about why she was being harassed. The tragedy here, apart from the loss of two young lives, is that her mental illness was never recognized as such and she evidently never got help with it. And her world was so intertwined with Jeremy's that he was not only unable to help her, but couldn't even help himself. Brilliant and beautiful? Sure. Troubled? Almost definitely. An avoidable loss? Without a doubt.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:29:07 -0500

please respect them both as they are today.this is a loss. like them or not. they each had something to say that contributed to our culture.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:20:11 -0500

Terribly sad, would bet on drinking and/or drugs before CIA hit job. Walk into any NA or AA meeting on any given day in NYC and listen to at least a few artists and writers talk about having resigned to ending it all in days of drinking/drugging and usually trying/"failing" at least once. Personally, my beach of choice was always Long Beach. Vicodin, Stoli, swim. Always in that order, but always wound up waking up on the beach, thank God. Thoughts are with those parents. That's the call you hope to Christ you never get as a parent.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:27:39 -0500

[9][15][16][21]: You are unfeeling brutes. Or are you all the abusive sockpuppets of Jim Cownie? It's not enough to drive T & J to their deaths. Now you need to defame their memories. What do they call it at Langley? Disinformation? I agree with both [11] and [19]. Which is not difficult, since I am both [11] and [19]. Like [19], I want to believe T & J are still with us, and that whatever necessitated this great artifice of disappearance has actually left them alive and well, just in the safety of another dimension. That whatever harpies besieged them have not actually harmed them beyond repair. Like [11], I celebrate their lives and their achievement, rue their premature deaths, and cry out for justice. They were both strong, creative people. Suicidal tendencies were not part of their usual mindset. Even if their deaths are fully investigated by the authorities and deemed to be self inflicted, they did not choose suicide without a lot of help from their tormentors. Those people -- some of whom were named in the Wit entries of May 13 et. al. -- must be brought to justice. T presented the evidence. It remains for justice to be done. http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/05/the_trouble_wit.html http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/07/citizen-wit-and.html

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:56:54 -0500

hipsters just never let up, do they?

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:03:13 -0500

Yesterday morning I learned about losing 2 of my best friends in the world. I walked across town to Feigen hoping that it was, as comment #19 suggests, all a ruse. I hoped that upon presenting the gallerists there with a wink and a secret password I would find T+J (and T) tucked away in the corner, safe from further damage (from which tormentors I'm not quite sure, though I'd been hearing an earful about a handful for some time). But they weren't. I really really can't believe they are gone. Theresa did not deserve the harrassment that drove her to the edge and over. Jeremy did not deserve to lose his best friend. I wish he hadn't walked into the water as a result but I can't imagine the anguish he must have felt. I still believe he will be back soon. In the meantime a dearly felt RIP to my darling sister-manquée Theresa L. Duncan. And I'm still hoping i just had the wrong password. - Blake (yes, that was me quoted in the Post)

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:42:06 -0500

So maybe T & J are not dead. J left the clothes, wallet and note under the boardwalk as a ruse and then split, undoubtedly to rendezvous with T at some prearranged secret locale. And T never actually died. The coroner's report, the police report, the suicide note, the funeral outside Detroit -- all this was staged, with the collusion of dozens, just so T & J could stage this massive deception. Is it a major piece of performance art? Are they on the lam, one step ahead of the Iowa CIA Scientologist biker mafia? Will they ever resurface, or are they underground forever?

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:49:08 -0500

what a sad and cowardly little creature you are, lance.

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:58:33 -0500

from the Post: "Blake Robin, a friend of the couple, said he had a hard time imagining the two committing suicide. 'Suicide would never be on their to-do list,' he said. 'The narrative of the wallet and the clothes under the boardwalk, it's like somebody writing a cliché, it's not them. 'It would be embarrassing to them. It seems too calculated for the most uncalculated people. I can see some teenager in Idaho who listens to Marilyn Manson doing this, but not them.'"

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:56:29 -0500

good riddance.

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:48:22 -0500

WOW, that blog of hers really shows what a paranoid nut-job she was. Perhaps if she and her little man had been more liberal in their application of tin-foil to their hats and windows they would be alive to blog more fairy tales about imagined conservative conspiracies. Crazy New Yorkers kill themselves, this is news? Or is this just an attempt to drive up the price their works command by sensationalizing their broken-brain actions? Lance- your humble working boy

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:25:25 -0500

that's so crazy!

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:37:56 -0500

http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/05/the_trouble_wit.html#comments this post of hers is from a couple of months ago>>>

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:15:05 -0500

Why is this sad? An innocent person murdered or raped is sad. Not 2 people at the pinnacle of their lives commiting suicide.

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:54:42 -0500

This is terrible news. I suspected something was up when I didn't see a new entry on Theresa's blog for a couple of days. She ALWAYS posted. Three days ago, after there was nothing on Wit for a week, I sent her an e-mail asking if she was okay. I have my answer now. I have only known about her death, and the death of Jeremy, for the last two hours. Theresa was brilliant and gorgeous, totally fierce and uncompromising. Wit was only the latest manifestation of her wit, her particular genius, her take-no-prisoners brand of humor and investigation. Her talent was immense. She was a master stylist and effortlessly hip. While I did not share each of her various passions -- for Kate Moss, perfume, and the apocryphal LA Lunar Society -- I never hesitated to visit her blog. I knew I would always be enlightened and entertained, no matter how far out the subject. And I was in awe of Jeremy. I'm thinking of the brilliant Winchester installation at the 2005 Whitney Biennial, and also his last show at Feigen (a projected video about LA). Amazing, visionary stuff. This is all too fucking bad. When I saw the entry on Anna Gaskell and her spook dad Jim Cownie posted on the May 13, 2007 Wit, I immediately feared that Theresa and Jeremy's lives were in danger. That they might be "disappeared". That the people they were dissing, and their assorted CIA compadres, would not allow the challenge to go unanswered. All reports indicate a double suicide, first Theresa and then Jeremy. But I wonder....

Albert Sharpton

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:11:10 -0500

These 2 were "the splasher"

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:06:29 -0500

kooky hipsters. whatta way to go. it's a long way from the east village to the far rockaways.

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:00:25 -0500

I want to buy this print from blake. http://www.starswelove.com/scriptsphp/showimg.php?imageid=14524

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:44:28 -0500

This is sad, but hurting yourself over a SO is ridiculously stupid. There's counseling and other people.

S.D.

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:31:51 -0500

My condolences to both their families.

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:24:45 -0500

does that mean that there is an apartment opening in the east village?

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:21:45 -0500

This is one one of the saddest stories I've ever heard heartbreaking

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:17:31 -0500

This is horrible.

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:16:02 -0500

Damn, Better buy up their art quick. I'm sure the prices will skyrocket. ANd the romantic notion that he died after she died will probably appreciate their works a thousandfold. I'm gonna save up and buy some of his works.

guest

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:10:40 -0500

Did anyone notice that the artist who ended up dead was covering MK-ULTRA and Project Monarch (two ultra-secret CIA mind control projects) on her blog??? See http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/07/citizen-wit-and.html She was a rising star successful writer. What the f*ck happened?