I Say I Am: Program 2

01:11:45

Collection: Curated Compilations

Tags: Feminism, Performance

I Say I Am: Program 2

The tapes in Facing the Self: Program 2 are organized around the appearance of the female form, particularly the face. Using at times elaborate, but more often very limited, visual means and divergent visual and theatrical strategies, each tape explores, asserts, withholds, and/or claims power over the representation of the artist’s body, its appearance and experiences. Focusing on the problematic relationship of power between the artist and her audience, the artist bodily appears on screen but keeps herself somehow unavailable to the viewer. As the audience, we are a sometimes unwelcome, but always distant, viewer.

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Hermine Freed

Two Faces

1972| 00:06:24

In her oft-cited essay “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,” Rosalind Krauss says, “self-encapsulation — taking the body or psyche as its own surround — is everywhere to be found in the corpus of…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Body, Feminism, Video History

Lynda Benglis

Now

1973| 00:11:45

Throughout the video, Benglis asks "Now?" and "Do you wish to direct me?" and repeats commands like "Start the camera" and "I said start recording." As in On Screen, she makes faces and sounds in…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Performance, Video History

Steina Vasulka

Let It Be

1972| 00:04:00

“The 1972 Women’s Video Festival [at the Kitchen] opened with an award-winning short by Steina Vasulka. Featuring close-ups of her mouth twitching and grimacing in accompaniment to the Beatles’s ‘Let…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Music, Performance, Video History

Using performance as a means of personal transformation and catharsis, Mitchell’s Death mourns the death of Montano’s ex-husband. Every detail of her story, from the telephone call announcing the…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Death and Dying, Performance, Religion/Spirituality, Ritual, Video History

Susan Mogul

Take Off

1974| 00:10:30

"I made Take Off in my studio apartment on Myra Avenue during my second year living in Los Angeles. As a member of the Feminist Studio Workshop, I was writing an essay at the time comparing male…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Performance, Sexuality, Video History, Art Criticism

Playing with cliched feminine personae, Eleanor Antin in The Adventures of a Nurse manipulates cut-out paper dolls to tell the story of innocent Nurse Eleanor who meets one gorgeous, intriguing, and…

Collections: Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tags: Feminism, Video History

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