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DALHOUSIE ART GALLERY

Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
Curated by Peter Dykhuis
Essay by Jayne Wark; Franklin Furnace text by
Martha Wilson
softcover, 72 pages, 26 col. /43 bw illustrations, 9 x 7 inches
ISBN: 978-0-770300-28-9
$25.00 / English / 2010

Martha Wilson is an American feminist who began her career in the early 1970s at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in the male-dominated Conceptualist milieu of the time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role-playing and invasions of male and other female personas. After moving to New York City in 1975, she further developed her performative and video-based practice in founding and directing Franklin Furnace, an artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration and promotion of innovative installation, performance and time-based art practices. This publication chronicles Wilson’s journey from the virtual isolation of her early work to the transformative experience of working with then-unknown artists like Jenny Holzer and Shirin Neshat in a socially-engaged feminist art practice that defied and challenged established artistic and political values.

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