How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most radical and most significant audiovisual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume focuses on her cinematic work as a universe of options for action, as a visionary springboard for perceiving and reshaping a society riddled with patriarchal structures. The authors of the book have taken up the editors' invitation to look back at individual works by VALIE EXPORT and reflect on ways to transpose them into the present and on their political potential. Their contributions touch on questions of identity and difference as well as the possibilities of communication and the refusal to communicate; the self-positioning of women*, gendernonconforming, and disablized people in the fields of art, film, and media and their frames of reference – war, division, fragmentation, objectification, non-belonging.

Year: 2025
Editors: Katharina Müller, Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein
Graphic Design: Malin Gewinner
Contributors: Erika Balsom, Monika Bernold, Christa Blümlinger, Sabeth Buchmann, Silvia Eiblmayr, VALIE EXPORT, Sabine Folie, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Ulrike Hanstein, Caroline Heider, Gabu Heindl und Drehli Robnik, Elfriede Jelinek, Gertrud Koch, Ira Konyukhova, Sophie Lewis, Vrääth Öhner, Sylvia Sadzinski, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Jul Marian Schadauer, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Inna Shevchenko, Elisabeth Streit und Tom Waibel, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Renée Winter, David Wittinghofer, and the editors.
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig (spectorbooks.com)
Language: 2 editions (English and German)
Pages: ca. 200
Hardcover
ISBN: 9783753306452 (English) / ISBN 978-3-95905-890-2 (German)