Critical Writing Index

Babette Mangolte: Being Right in the Middle of It

by Lina Bertucci

Flash Art, Jan. 2008, pp. 132-135

Babette Mangolte discusses her recent and earlier work, focusing on her work with Marina Abramovic for Seven Easy Pieces, her work with dancer Trisha Brown in Water Motor, and her collaborations with Chantal Akerman in the 1970s. Mangolte's work often focuses on women and women's everyday lives, and she explains that feminism was very important to the work she created during the 1970s.

ITEM 2008.143 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Seven Easy Pieces – Babette Mangolte

Seven Easy Pieces – Marina Abramovic

Water Motor – Babette Mangolte

Maisie – Babette Mangolte

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Babette Mangolte

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman