Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image ― Contexts and Practices

Recent decades have seen the art gallery become an increasingly important exhibition space for the moving image. This book sees leading scholars bring contemporary perspectives to the contexts, practices and concerns of women artists working with film and video, addressing both the historical realm of the avant-garde as well as feminist art practices today. Its chronological breadth is matched by its wide international scope, branching out from white and Western perspectives to look at artists from Middle Eastern, East Asian and African American backgrounds and from a variety of cultural and technological environments. In doing so, the book explores a worldwide renewal of feminist articulacy that provides new challenges and opportunities for women artists working with the moving image. Chapters discuss topics such as women, work and play on the artist's screen; representation and receptions; how multiculturalism can be linked to experimental and activist film history; the function and nature of the essay film and feminist curatorial practices. The growing crowd of artists, archivists and curators of moving image cultures, as well as the students and scholars who study them, will find much to inspire and engage within these pages edited by a foremost light in the field.

Lucy Reynolds is a senior lecturer in the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster, as well as an artist and curator. Her research focuses on the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice and she has written widely on these subjects in book chapters and journals such as Afterall, The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) and Screen.