Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image (eBook, PDF)

Contexts and Practices
Redaktion: Reynolds, Lucy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the significance of gendered identification in relation to artists' moving image? How do women artists grapple with the interlinked narratives of gender discrimination and gender identity in their work? In this groundbreaking book, a diverse range of leading scholars, activists, archivists and artists explore the histories, practices and concerns of women making film and video across the world, from the pioneering German animator Lotte Reiniger, to the influential African American filmmaker Julie Dash and the provocative Scottish contemporary artist Rachel Maclean.

Opening with a foreword from the film theorist Laura Mulvey and a poem by the artist film-maker Lis Rhodes, Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image traces the legacies of early feminist interventions into the moving image and the ways in which these have been re-configured in the very different context of today. Reflecting and building upon the practices of recuperation that continue to play a vital role in feminist art practice and scholarship, essays discuss topics such as how multiculturalism is linked to experimental and activist film history, the function and nature of the essay film, feminist curatorial practices and much more.

This book transports the reader across diverse cultural contexts and geographical contours, addressing complex narratives of subjectivity, representation and labour, while juxtaposing cultures of film, video and visual arts practice often held apart. As the editor, Lucy Reynolds, argues: it is at the point where art, moving image and feminist discourse converge that a rich and dynamic intersection of dialogue and exchange opens up, bringing to attention practices which might fall outside their separate spheres, and offering fresh perspectives and insights on those already established in its histories and canons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350113299
• Artikelnr.: 57395664

Autorenporträt

Lucy Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, UK. She is the Editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), and a curator and artist. Her work has been published in Afterall, MIRAJ, Screen and Screendance. Her particular interests are questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Laura Mulvey (Birbeck, University of London, UK)
Introduction: Raising Voices, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK)
Introduction: Certain Measures, Lis Rhodes (Artist and filmmaker, UK)
Part One: Acknowledgements
In Conversation: MORE: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Irene Revell
1. In a tiny realm of her own: Lotte Reiniger's light work, Elinor Cleghorn
(Independent scholar, UK)
2. Returning to Riddles, Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London,
UK)
3. 'Being a together woman is a bitch': 'An African American woman's film'
genealogy of Julie Dash's Four Women (1975), So Mayer (Freelance writer,
UK)
4. Film Esperienza. The work of Marinella Pirelli, Lucia Aspesi (Pirelli
HangarBicocca, Italy)
5. Prescient intersectionality: Women, moving image and identity politics
in 1980s Britain, Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK)
Part Two: Engagements and Negotiations
In Conversation: Maria Palacios Cruz interviews Basma Alsharif
6. 'Overexposed, like an X-ray': The politics of corporeal vulnerability in
Sandra Lahire's experimental cinema, Maud Jacquin (Art historian and
curator, France & USA)
7. 'Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s': Penelope Spheeris's I
Don't Know, Erika Balsom (King's College London, UK)
8. Aesthetics of potentiality: Nguyen Trinh Thi's Essay films, May Adadol
Ingawanji (University of Westminster, UK)
9. The art of maximal ventriloquy: Femininity as labour in the films of
Rachel MacLean, Sarah Neely (University of Stirling, UK) & Sarah Smith
(Glasgow School of Art, UK)
Part Three: Situations and Receptions
In Conversation: Club des Femmes, Helena Reckitt: An Interview on
International Women's Day 2017
10. Strategies of exposure and concealment in moving image art by women; a
cross-generational account, Cate Elwes (Video artist and curator, UK)
11. Choreographing women's work: Multitaskers, smartphone users and
virtuoso performers, Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design
and Technology, Ireland)
12. Female solidarity as uncommodified value: Lucy Beech's Cannibals and
Rehana Zaman's Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, Maria Walsh
(Chelsea College of the Arts, University Arts London, UK)
13. Can we still talk about women artists? Melissa Gronlund (The National,
USA)
Bibliography
Index