As she prepares to direct an unstaged script by the late pirate queen of counterculture, theatre-maker Kate Valk recalls how they met " and how she dealt with Acker's challenging attitude to sex Kate Valk leads the way up a winding marble staircase, past video screens showing unspeakable acts of body modification, to an empty room at the top of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. She pulls up two red plastic cha…
