Description
Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines
Author/Editor: Erika Balsom & Robert Leckie
CONTENTS
Since the early 1980s, American artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority. With contributions from Erika Balsom, Elena Gorfinkel, Tendai Mutambu, John David Rhodes and Shola von Rheinold, Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines explores how she has extended and contested the paradigm of experimental cinema over the last four decades.
Since the early 1980s, Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority. Whether by working with nonprofessional performers, especially women and girls, or repurposing existing images – such as a decaying, pornographic film, the video game, Tomb Raider or computer-animated news coverage – Ahwesh embraces, improvisatory strategies that probe the critical potential of play. With keen attentiveness to the materiality of bodies and media technologies alike, her works articulate a feminist commitment to the marginal and the minor. Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines is the first monograph devoted to this pathbreaking artist, published on the occasion of her first solo exhibit in the UK, at Spike Island in Bristol.
CONTENTS:
Erika Balsam & Robert Leckie: Introduction
Erika Balsam: Girlish Pursuits
Elena Gorfinkel: Women They Talk About
Shola Von Reinhold: The Scintillations Of Black Carnelian Grotto (the Individual) And Theire Journey To Black Carnelian Grotto (the Place)
Tendai Mutambu: Animating Catastrophe
Peggy Ahwesh & John David Rhodes In Conversation
Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines was published 2022 by Mousse Publishing, on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented at Spike Island, Bristol UK 2021–2022.
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
ISBN: 9788867494835
Dimensions: 5.75 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
