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Performing an Archive
Suzy Lake
出版Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2015
主題Art / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / Artists' BooksArt / Individual Artists / MonographsPhotography / General
ISBN19104336759781910433676
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pWHcsgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Suzy Lake's Performing an Archive presents the most recent photographic work by Canadian artist Suzy Lake in which she explores the concept of the self in both portrait and artistic practice more generally, as well as the ideas of ancestry, nostalgia and memory. The body of work in Lake's Performing an Archive includes sel-portraits that reveals themselves to be a deeply personal retelling of the history of family and place. Drawing on historical events and her own family chronicle, Lake bears witness to the urban, demographic and social development of Detroit, a city marked throughout the twentieth century by economic decline, racial tensions and high crime rate. Through these photographs Lake invites the viewer to consider the photographic representation of self as a means of simultaneously documenting and confronting two histories: the ontogenetic and the phylogenetic; the personal and the familial.Born in Detroit, USA, Suzy Lake has lived in Canada since the late 1960s, where she widely contributed to the emergence of conceptual and feminist art. She was one of the first artists in Canada to use performance, video and photography to explore questions of gender, the body and identity. Her work has been shown in numerous major exhibitions, including WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007; Suzy Lake: Political Poetics at the University of Toronto Art Centre and the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, 2011; and Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 at the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Justina M Barnicke Gallery at University of Toronto and the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012. In 2014, the Art Gallery of Ontario mounted a major retrospective of her work, Introducing Suzy Lake. She has been a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts since 2004.