Autotheory and Artists’s Video: Performing Theory, Philosophy, and Art Criticism in Canadian and Indigenous Video Art, 1968-2018
Toronto: Vtape, 2018
Lauren Fournier's dissertation on "autotheory" molds with her immersion with VTape's video catalogue as a post-feminist practice across media. This version of her work includes an essay and a screening of works by Hiba ALi, Madelyne Beckles, Theo J. Cuthand, Andrew James Paterson, Evan Tyler, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, and Martha Wilson.
Fournier extends the term "autotheory" into contemporary art and text-based practices as a way of understanding works of art and literature that bring autobiography and other explicity subjective modes together with discourses on philosophy.
ITEM 2018.015 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Autotheory and Artists’s Video: Performing Theory, Philosophy, and Art Criticism in Canadian and Indigenous Video Art, 1968-2018 – Lauren Fournier
The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
Testo Junkie – Paul B. Preciado
fear irony, and curating in the 90s – Evan Tyler
Living A Feminist Life – Sara Ahmed
Working Baby Dyke Theory: The Diasporic Impact of Cross-Generational Barriers – Theo J. Cuthand
Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory – Theo J. Cuthand
Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Toward a Queer Horizon – Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue
Womanism is a form of feminism focused especially on the conditions and concerns of black women – Madelyne Beckles
Sad Girl Theory – Audrey Wollen
Killing Rage: Ending Racism – Bell Hooks
In Search of Us – Bell Hooks (in collaboration with Petra Collins)
Women, Race, and Class – Angela Davis
Theory of the Young Girl – Madelyne Beckles
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl – Tiqqun
(Not) Girls and Madwomen – Heather Cromarty
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child – Moira Weigel and Mal Ahern
Postcolonial Language – Hiba Ali
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence – Judith Butler
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable – Judith Butler
Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
Art Sucks – Martha Wilson
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus
Psychology of Camera Presence – Rosalind Krauss
Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism – Rosalind Krauss