Lisa Steele: The Conceptual Anthropology of Narrative Works, 1976-1982
Lisa Steele: The Conceptual Anthropology of Narrative Works, 1976-1982, 2010
Toronto: Vtape, 2010
Lisa Steele's work, as described by curator Joshua Thorson, "moves with great facility through divergent artistic and epistemic modalities: from more purely conceptual work to auto-ethnography to research-based feminist anthropology to more blatantly narrative works".
This essay is one of three Vtape Fellowship Essays
essays published between 2010 and 2011, and produced in association with the Curatorial Incubator v.8.
ITEM 2010.148 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Juggling – Lisa Steele
Birthday Suit - with scars and defects – Lisa Steele
The Ballad of Dan Peoples – Lisa Steele
The Scientist Tapes – Lisa Steele
Talking Tongues – Lisa Steele
The Woman From Malibu – Lisa Steele
She's Gone Gone Gone – Willie Nelson
The Damages – Lisa Steele
Makin' Strange – Lisa Steele
The Gloria Tapes – Lisa Steele
Some Call It Bad Luck – Lisa Steele
If I Can't Have You – Yvonne Elliman