Critical Writing Index

Lisa Steele: The Conceptual Anthropology of Narrative Works, 1976-1982

by Joshua Thorson

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