"Originally published in the mid-1970s, Womens Work was a magazine that sought to highlight the overlooked work of female artists working at the cusp of the visual arts, music, and performance. The magazine was edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood and featured text-based and instructional performance scores by the following 25 artists, composers, and choreographers: Beth Anderon, Ruth Anderson, Jacki Apple, Barbara Benary, Sari Dienes, Nye Ffarrabas (participating as Bici Forbes), Simone Forti, Wendy Greenberg, Heidi Von Gunden, Françoise Janicot, Alison Knowles, Christina Kubisch, Carol Law, Annea Lockwood (also included as Anna Lockwood), Mary Lucier, Lisa Mikulchik, Ann Noël (included as Ann Williams), Pauline Oliveros, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Elaine Summers, Carole Weber, Julie Winter, and Marilyn Wood. ... [details]
Edited by Tod Lippy. Essays "Found Object: Collective Struggles: A letter discovered in 1975 in a hiding space beneath a cottage in Palo Alto, CA," contributed by Steve Weyl; "Singular Network: A dance company documents the creation of Cell, a piece crafted for one audience member at a time," by Headlong Dance Theater; "New Voices: "Carter and the Kid": Fourth in our series of fiction by emerging authors," by Stuart Nadler; "Paintings for Cash: The Confessions of a Marketable Artist: An anonymous dispatch from a parallel art universe," by "Penelope"; "Modern Artifact 2: "Dear Miss Miller. ... [details]
"How can an art exhibition function as a stand-in for the artists and their studios? How can a gallery project provide greater insight into an artist's practice, the way the formality of a slide lecture or the intimacy of a studio visit can? How can the back-story of the work on display be understood, without being solely reliant on a curatorial statement, catalogue essay or press release? This exhibition allows art to be understood as an ongoing and slippery practice, and less the finite, linear and object-oriented one assumed by the standard exhibition format. ... [details]
Magazine of New Music. Essays: "Leather Jacket Vaudeville," by Dick Higgins; "Untitled," by Betsy Davids; "Sun," by Hannah Weiner; "Consulting Musician," by Anna Lockwood; "Vocal Flow," by Bonnie Mara Barnett; "Preamble For Elayne," by Amy Miller Levine; "Margret Fisher's New Project," by Margret Fisher; "Five Traditions of Art History, an Essay," by Dick Higgins; "Sale #5 : Crock," by Barbara Benary; "Political Music," by Jill Kroesen; "Art and Romace / Romance and Art," by Phil Harmonic; "Monkey Shines," by Alison Knowles; "Music In The Sun," by Grahame Weinbren; "If I Were A Poet," by Beth Anderson; "Performance Piece for Eleanor Antin," by Alison Knowles; "Cornbread Recipe," by Marj Anderson; "Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky," by Shigeko Kubota. [details]
