Self-photography as a performative act by women artists, sharpened by their active role in shooting the photos, allows the gaze of the other to enter only after the fact. The theoretical positions of feminism are evident in the performative photographic practices of Francesca Woodman, Carolee Schneeman, Martha Wilson, Valie Export, Birgit Jürgenssen, Friedl Kubelka, or Carola Dertnig and many others. The present volume shows 35 positions which, through interviews and commentaries on the works, allow affinities to be drawn with and followed through to queer and gay theory and the discussion of minority rights, as well as postcolonial studies and ecological movements. The introductory texts by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and Abigail Solomon-Godeau recapitulate the history of the intensive crossing of women’s self-photography, the history of emancipation, gender theory, and performance.
Edited by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein for The Austrian Federal Chancellery
Further exhibitions: at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 29 November 2014 – 15 March 2015; at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 16 May – 13 September 2015
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Self-Timer Stories at Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 18 June – 22 September 2014;
