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
• 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