Exhibition held at ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, December 13, 2014-April 6, 2015; Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Falckenberg Collection, June 14, 2015-January 17, 2016; Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, February 27-June 5, 2016. Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-382).
Contents:
1963-1972 -- The Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson: A Panoply of Identities -- Genealogy in Wax -- 1973-1975 -- The Roberta Breitmore Series: Performing Co-Identity -- 1976-1979 -- Landscape of Tremors: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Toward an Intellectual History -- 1979-1893 -- Conversation -- 1983-1984 -- Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson -- 1985-1991 -- Face, Surface, Interface: The Motif of the Mask in the Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson -- 1992-1995 -- Global Space Invaders: The Social Interventions of The Floating Museum -- 1995-2000 -- California Dreaming: The Cinematic Fusions of Lynn Hershman Leeson -- Letter to Lynn -- 2002-2007 -- (No) Vacancy -- 2008-2011 -- Conversation -- Since 2012 -- The Infinity Engine -- Lynn Hershman Leeson Civic Radar -- Texts 1984-2014
Summary:
"First comprehensive monograph, compiled in close collaboration with the artist. Lynn Hershman Leeson is among the first and most influential of media artists. During the past five decades she has achieved pioneering work in the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive and net-based media art. The major themes of Hershman Leeson are the construction of identity, monitoring and control, and life in the era of genetic engineering. Her most influential performance work is Roberta Breitmore (1973-78) – the fictional character that she, then three subsequent female personas, enacted in real time and space, using artifacts of the time. In her most recent works, Lynn Hershman Leeson includes web applications, mass communication media such as smart-phones, as well as the latest scientific developments in the field of genetics and regenerative medicine including 3D bioprinters that create human body parts." from publisher's website.
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