Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement

Kindly donated by the publisher: I B Tauris

Vanessa Corby: Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement (22nd June 2010)

Examines the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse. Using feminist approaches and taking as a starting point two of her key works, the author reveals the way in which Hesse has been constructed as a ‘woman artist’ and explores the overlooked legacy of the Holocaust and refugee life in her art practice.

Inci Eviner

We thank Eviner for donating a copy of her catalogue to the bildwechsel archive.

Johanna Schaffer: Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkei and Mehr(wert) queer ­ Queer Added (Value): Visuelle Kultur, Kunst und Gender-Politiken ­ Visual Culture, Art, and Gender Politics

zwei bücher von johanna schaffer ins archiv gegeben
two books donated to the archive by johanna schaffer

1. Johanna Schaffer: Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit.
Über die visuellen Strukturen der Anerkennung. Bielefeld: transcript 2008 Die Forderung und Vorstellung der Sichtbarkeit spielt in politischen Debatten um die Anerkennung marginalisierter Gruppen eine zentrale Rolle. Wie aber können minorisierte Positionen visuell dargestellt werden, ohne in der Form ihrer Darstellung Minorisierung zu wiederholen? Damit beschäftigt sich Johanna Schaffers Buch. Sie will es präsentieren, um gemeinsam über den Zusammenhang zwischen Bildproduktion und der Herstellung von Herrschaft und Dominanz, aber auch dem Begehren nach affirmativen (schönen!) Bildern minorisierter Subjektpositionen nachzudenken.

2. Mehr(wert) queer ­ Queer Added (Value): Visuelle Kultur, Kunst und Gender-Politiken ­ Visual Culture, Art, and Gender Politics

Dieser Band diskutiert das kritische Potential queerer und queer-feministischer Bilder- und Kunstpolitiken. Im Kontext der Frage, wie visuelle Argumentationen mit rechtlichen und politischen Diskursen interagieren, geht es um Ausdifferenzierungen und Zuspitzungen queerer politischer Positionen und ästhetischer Möglichkeiten.

The book discusses the critical potential of queer and queer-feminist visual and art politics. Queer political positions and aesthetic possibilities are differentiated and honed in the context of asking how visual arguments interact with legal and political discourses.

sexy things

“sexy things” ins archiv gegeben vermittelt durch maike mia hoehne
sampler mit filmen u.a.von Sam Taylor-Wood Duane Hopkins Maxime Desmons Petra Schröder

a sampler with works from Sam Taylor-Wood Duane Hopkins Maxime Desmons Petra Schröder
donated to the archiv by maike mia hoehne

Ilse Middendorf

von gerd conradt ins archiv gegeben: eine videostudie über ilse middendorfs studie über den erfahrbaren atem.

dontated by gerd conradt – a study about the work and ideas of ilse middendorf with breath-meditaion

HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life

HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Barbara Hammer
The Feminist Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55861-612-7

den bildwechsel-archive geschenkt von mel pritchard – mit einer widmung für bildwechsel von barbara hammer (april 2010)

a present from mel pritchard to the bildwechsel archives – personally signed by barbara hammer (april 2010)

DONNA: AVANGUARDIA FEMMINISTA NEGLI ANNI ’70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna

Ein umfangreicher Ausstellungskatalog zur Ausstellung ist erschienen:
“DONNA: AVANGUARDIA FEMMINISTA NEGLI ANNI ’70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna“, Gabriele Schor (Hg.), Mondadori Electa, Mailand 2010.

Mit Texten von Sigrid Adorf, Rosella Caruso, Magdalena Felice, Jocelyn Fortin, Edith Futscher, Julia P. Herzberg, Suzanne Lacy, Alyce Mahon, Gislind Nabakowski, Angelandreina Rorro, Kathrin Schmidt, Gabriele Schor, Beate Söntgen, Geraldine Spiekermann, Jayne Wark. Englisch/Italienisch. 266 Seiten, ca. 300 Abbildungen.  ISBN 978-88-370-7414-2.

• dieser katalog wurde von Gabriele Schor an die archive gesandt – aufveranlassung von samuel herzog, der auf die wichtigkeit der bildwechsel-archive verwies.

• this katalog was sent to us by Gabriele Schor at the instance of samuel herzog – who pointed out the importance of the bildwechsel-archives

Acting Irish in Hollywood

Acting Irish In Hollywood: From Fitzgerald to Farrell

Ruth Barton, Irish Academic Press

Donated by the author, Ruth Barton, who Eva Kietzman (bildwechsel berlin) met at the Women and Film History Confernence in March 2010, New York

als geschenkt der autorin für bildwechsel angefragt durch eva kietzmann auf der konferenz women and film history im märz 2010

Nothing ever happened – new animation from Jessica MacCormack

Nothing ever happened (2009), 9:41 min

Nothing ever happened (2009) is an experimental animation that illustrates a surreal internal landscape occupied by child creatures and animal imagery. A child goes off to school and must reevaluate everything they have known. Fish, dogs, cats & birds interact with fish tanks, living room furniture, poppies, school busses and the first artificial heart technology. They morph and combine with one another, changing masks and creating new creatures in the strangely internalized and claustrophobic environment that they inhabit. Relationships between the objects, animals and sound create a commentary on seeing and invisibility as experienced by the body. The menacing feeling of animalistic predators and prey seeps into every scene, as odd sexual metaphors manifest with alien-like qualities.  Everything points against one of the narrative claims that, “Nothing ever happened.”

Jessica MacCormack

Jessica’s art practice combines various elements of interactivity, performance, intervention, installation and video, frequently destabilizing ideas of high culture for a political/socially engaged content. Collectivity and community have also largely informed her practice, taking an active part in artist run center culture, performance collectives and collaborations. This has also included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are dealing with issues of criminalization through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. In 2008, she completed an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in festivals, screenings, artist run centres and museums

donations from blackdog publishing

The bw project ‘permanent conference of artistic resources‘ this year takes the theme ‘ experiments in living’ and we are meeting in Glasgow for a week of discussions, drawing, video, visits and planning.  In support of the project blackdog publishing have kindly donated the following books:

Transmission: Committee for the Visual Arts

Transmission is an artist-run space which was started in Glasgow in 1983 and has since become a model for collective action, bringing a marginal art community to the attention of a world-wide audience.

The Situationist International: A User’s Guide

This book is the first to present in a single volume a complete guide to one of the most notorious and radical art movements of the twentieth century, the Situationist International (SI). Comprising a comprehensive history that includes an examination of the SI’s far-reaching ideas about our ‘society of the spectacle’, this book also provides an insight into the Situationist legacy together with extensive visual material.

Arcade: Artists and Place-Making

Arcade Artists and Place-making is a compelling documentation by artists, academics, architects and writers of the work surrounding the regeneration of the Gorbals.

City Racing

City Racing 1988-98 – ten years of an artists run gallery in London. How five cash-strapped artists developed a squat into a locally and internationally known gallery giving artists access to an independently run but publicly funded project space. City Racing 1988-98 provides a reflection and overview of the period and the programme through collective history, personal recollection, visual and written documentation. Sarah Lucas, Matt Collishaw, Graham Gussin, Fiona Banner, Gillian Wearing, Adam Chodzko are amongst the many artists featured in the book.

Taking the Matter Into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices

Taking the Matter into Common Hands maps out the issues surrounding collaborative art from a practitioner’s perspective. With contributions from Marion von Osten, Nav Haq, 16 Beaver, Copenhagen Free University, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson, it examines the working relations between artists and other producers of culture, and explores the future of collective action in the art world.