Stories to Tell: Autobiography and Narrative
Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America, 2006, pp. 86-123
Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
This chapter describes the work of many Canadian and American female performance artists and their video works. The theme connecting the works are narratives of autobiography and family life on video. The author argues that the connections made between private and public life are what give these works their feminist, political quality.
ITEM 2006.187 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
O Canada – Joyce Wieland
Birthday Suit - With Scars and Defects – Lisa Steele
Home Endurance – Linda Montano
Seven Years of Living Art – Linda Montano
14 Years of Living Art – Linda Montano
Art/Life One Year Performance, 1983-84 – Linda Montano
Art/Life One Year Performabce, 1983-84 – Tehching Hsieh
Home Tape Revisited – Lynda Benglis
Underscan – Nancy Holt
Family Album – Hermine Fried
The Influences of My Mother – Sara Diamond
A Very Personal Story – Lisa Steele
My Father – Shigeko Kubota
Being Women in Japan: Liberation within My Family – Kyoko Michisita
The Mom Tapes – Ilene Segalove
Advice from Mom – Ilene Segalove
The Red Slippers – Ilene Segalove
Professional Retirement Home – Ilene Segalove
Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain – Martha Rosler
Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful – Martha Rosler
Service: A Trilogy on Colonization – Martha Rosler
A Budding Gourmet – Martha Rosler
Semiotics of the Kitchen – Martha Rosler
Parlare – Tonia Di Risio
Progresso – Tonia Di Risio
Homemade: A Showcase of Fine Family Homes – Tonia Di Risio
Good Housekeeping – Tonia Di Risio
hand-held – Gillian Collyer
Cleaning and Loving (It) – Margaret Dragu