Critical Writing Index

Interrogating the Boundaries of Women's Art:: New Work in Video by Four Women

by Liz Kotz

High Performance, Winter 1989, no. 48, pp. 36-41

This article examines the changing definitions of women's art, by focusing on the video work of four San Francisco based artists, whose divergent practices underline much of the current debate about feminist art practices and attempts to engage with other non-art representational and aesthetic traditions.

ITEM 1989.002 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

How to Fuck Friends and Keep Them – Leslie Singer

Refried Broccoli – Leslie Singer

Laurie Sings Iggy – Leslie Singer

Smokie: Portrait of a Glitter Babe – Leslie Singer

My Life as a Godard Film by Whitney Houston – Leslie Singer

Priscilla Presley's Bathroom – Leslie Singer

Hot Dog Fat – Leslie Singer

Hot Rox – Leslie Singer

The Madonna Series – Leslie Singer

The Sigmund Freud Story – Azian Nurudin

Nancy's Nightmare – Azian Nurudin

Self-Immolation as an Anachronism – Azian Nurudin

Head Hunters of Borneo – Azian Nurudin

Automobile Clean-up Expediency – Azian Nurudin

Bitter Staarke – Azian Nurudin

Grapefruit – Cecilia Dougherty

Gay Tape: Butch and Femme – Cecilia Dougherty

Sick – Cecilia Dougherty

Claudia – Cecilia Dougherty

Kathy – Cecilia Dougherty

All Orientals Look the Same – Valerie Soe

New Year, Parts I & II – Valerie Soe

Scratch Video – Valerie Soe