Artists Collaborations in Intermedia Visual Arts
Session will present: On locationThis panel brings together scholars and curators exploring forms of collaboration among pioneering twentieth century women artists whose experimental work intersected with a wide range of subjectivities, locations, technologies, and temporal frames. Of particular interest are the ways in which the rise of “intermedia”—here in its expanded historical form—circumscribes the hybridity of new genres initiated within collective modes of making in performance, conceptual art, new media, and other creative enterprises. Artists under consideration here directly address the distinct types of knowledge their diverse alliances, partnerships, and intimate bonds perform or disable. These orders of desire and knowledge suggest analogies between an artist’s life and works; so, too, the recognition of authorship as the cipher of subjectivity productively undermined through models and practices of cooperation. Thinking about the epistemological, ideological, and aesthetic aims engendered by their interconnected lives and work—as well as what their blind spots can reveal about the period concerns for archival research—may help us to reflect more critically about how we write about gender, artists, critical biography, and the private/public relations that disrupt the disciplinary boundaries of art’s histories.
Keywords:
Topics: Women-Centered Content
Medium: Intermedia
Topics: Archival Studies
Time Period: Twentieth Century
Geographic Area: North America
Chairs:
Hannah Higgins
and
Nicole Woods, Loyola Marymount University
Abstract Submissions Closed