City of Women Video Library: The History of the Future

We asked Martha Wilson to curate
this year’s City of Women Video Library. She selected recordings of 19
performance works which have “…changed art discourse during the last quarter
century.”

1. The Age of Avant-Garde
Innocence: Alice Aycock, Untitled. Performance at Franklin Furnace, 1978.
2. The Body as Art Medium: Tari
Ito, Face:  Memory of the Epidermis,
1994.
3. Endurance: Jill Scott, A Beat
in Step, 1975; Stick a Round,1976.
4. Art in the Environment: Donna
Henes, Chance for Peace, 10 min., 1985.
5. Music as Art: Alva Rogers,
Race Songs and Islands, 1992.
6. Art History: Andrea Fraser,
Museum highlights: A Gallery Talk, 1989.
7. Feminism: Ilona Granet, Rape,
2 X 30 min., 1978.
8. The World’s a Stage: Fiona
Templeton, You the City, 1988.
9. Gender Benders: Cathay Che,
Impact 25, 1995.
10. Art and Madness: Linda Sibio,
West Virginia Schizophrenic Blues, 30 min. excerpt of a 5 hour performance,
1990.
11. The Culture Wars, I: Holly
Hughes, Preaching to the Perverted, 1999.
12. The Culture Wars, II: Annie
Sprinkle, Post Porn Modernist, 1991.
13. Monologue: Deborah Edmeades,
Fancy Ladies, 1999.
14. Dis-Ability: Jesse Jane
Lewis, b, 2 min.; A Change in the Perception of Red, 8 min.; Video Skitz,
3 min.; Stick to Black, 4 min.
15. Race: Robbie McCauley,
Sally’s Rape, 1990.
16. Art and Politics: Coco Fusco
and Paula Heredia, The Couple in the Cage, 1993. Coco’s piece with Guillermo
Gomez-Pena.
17.  Art/Life: Linda Montano, Mitchell’s Death,
1985.
18. The Extended Body: Patty
Chang, Fountain, 1999.
19. Art/World: Cathy Weis,
Excerpts, 10 min.