CONTENTS PREFACE Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Claude Bussac, Paul Dujardin, Karolina Peterson, Hubertus Gaßner, Brett Rogers, Karola Kraus, Peter Weibel, Hanne Beate Ueland, Terezie Petiskovä ................................................................................... 9 Gabriele Schor ON THE IDENTITY OF THE SAMMLUNG VERBUND COLLECTION, VIENNA 13 Gabriele Schor THE FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE A RADICAL REVALUATION OF VALUES 17 Mechtild Widrich THE FOURTH WALL TURNS PENSIVE FEMINIST EXPERIMENTS WITH THE CAMERA............................................................................................... 73 Merle Radtke PRESENCE AND ABSENCE ON THE LEGACY OF 1970S PERFORMANCE ART 79 Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaum er VIENNA’S FEMALE ACTIONISTS FEMINIST POSITIONS IN AUSTRIA 85 WORKS FROM THE SAMMLUNG VERBUND COLLECTION, VIENNA Teresa Grandas HELENA ALMEIDA INHABITING ART ................................................................................................................. 93 Mirtes Marins de Oliveira LETICIA PARENTE THE BODY AND THE OPUS AS A WITNESS OF TIM ES................................................... 99 Abigail Solomon-Godeau ELEANOR ANTINRESISTING REPRESENTATION........................................................................................... 103 Gabriele Schor LORRAINE O'GRADY MLLE BOURGEOISE NOIRE........................................................................................... 109 Brigitte Kölle TERESA BURGA DIVERSE WORLDS ................................................................................................................. 113 Nora Hcglinger MARY BETH EDELSON"THE GODDESS IS US ' ............................................................................................... 121 Eva Krauthaker MARGOT PILZ PSYCHOANALYTICAL-PERFORMATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY.................................................... 127 Luisa Pauline Fink ESTHER FERRERREDUCTION AS RESISTANCE............................................................................................ 139 Angelandreina Rorro KETTY LA ROCCA REDUCTION OF LANGUAGE............................................................................................... 145 Michelle Marie Roy NIL YALTER PERFORMING "THE OTHER"....................................................................................................... 153 Daniela Hahn GINA PANE "A GLASS OF HOT MILK"................................................................................................................ 159 Jenni Sorkin CAROLEE SCHNEEMANNTHEATER OF RESPONSIVENESS........................................................................ 163 Astrid Helen Windingstad ANNEKE BARGER THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MOMENT ........................................................................... 169 Julia Garimorth JUDY CHICAGOA STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY.................................................................................................. 173 Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer LINDA CHRISTANELL FINGER FAN AND THE WINGS OF ANDROGYNY.................................................... 179 Margit Zuckriegl KARIN MACK IN THE THEATER OF SELF-EVENTS ........................................................................................ 187 Beate Söntgen HANNAH WILKE SUPERSTAR............................................................................................................................. 193 Mechtild Widrich VALIE EXPORT BODY CINEM A........................................................................................................................... 203 Sophie Lauwers ULI DUJOURIE POETIC STRATEGIES......... ................................................................................................. 213 Daniela Hahn MARCELLA CAMPAGNANO THE INVENTION OF FEMINITY....................................................................... 217 Catherine J. Morris LYNDA BENGLIS NOTATIONS OF SELF.......................................................................................................... 221 Connie Butler LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON IDENTITY CIRCUIT........................................................................................... 225 Emese Kürti KATALIN LADIK TO RECLAIM THE FEMALE BODY...................................................................................... 229 Heather Jones JUDITH BERNSTEIN VERTICAL ..................................................................................................................... 235 Theresa Dann ULRIKE ROSENBACH FEMINIST INCURSION................................................................... 237 Inka Graeve Ingelmann MARTHA ROSLER THE HOME AS A BATTLEFIELD ..................................................................................... 245 Jessica Morgan RENATE BERTLMANN UNMASKS SOCIETY................................................................................................. 249 Birgitte Anderberg KIRSTEN JUSTESEN PERFORMING SCULPTURE - FEMINISTICALLY ................................................... 275 Merle Radtke LESLIE LABOWITZ AND SUZANNE LACY IN MOURNING AND IN RAGE ................................................ 277 Eva Badura-Triska EWA PARTUM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEMALE BODY....................................................................... 283 Gislind Nabakowski FRIEDERIKE PEZOLD THE NEW EMBODIED SIGN LANGUAGE .............................................................. 287 Giovanna Zapperi SUZANNE SANTORO TOWARDS NEW EXPRESSION .................................................................................. 291 Merle Radtke RITA MYERS A REVISION OF THE WELL-PROPORTIONED HUMAN BEING ........................................... 297 Gabriele Schor SUZY LAKE ON THE POLITICS OF ROLE-PLAY............................................................................................ 299 Hanne Beate Ueland MARTHA WILSON FEMINIST AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE ARTIST .................................................. 303 Patricia Allm er ALEXIS HUNTER TOUCHING POINTS, POINTS OF TOUCH ........................................................................ 309 Leena Crasemann ANNEGRET SOLTAU SPINNING, ENMESHING, SEWING - EMANCIPATORY STRING-GAMES ..............317 Camille Morineau ORLAN EXPOSED BODY, BODY FOR SALE ................................................................................................... 325 Angela Sties PENNY SLINGER EXORCISM EXERCISES ...................................................................................................... 331 Stephanie Rosenthal ANA MENDIETA THE STATE OF "IN-BETWEEN" ..........................................................................................341 Gabriele Schor RENATE EISENEGGER "MY RAGE WAS MY STARTING POINT" .................................................................. 347 Peter Weibel BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN BODY AS ART AGAINST THE SEMIOTICS OF CAPITAL ....................................... 355 Roxana Marcoci SANJA IVEKOVIC WOMAN AS POLITICAL SUBJECT.................................................................................... 391 Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer BRIGITTE LANG METAL, SKIN-TIGHT ............................................................................................................ 397 Mirjam Westen LYDIA SCHOUTEN "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A SEXOBJECT" .................................................................403 Elisabeth Bremen FRANCESCA WOODMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC TABLEAUX VIVANTS ............................................................... 407 Gabriele Schor CINDY SHERMAN SUBVERSIVE METAMORPHOSES .................................................................................... 455 APPENDIX Theresa Dann ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES ..................................................................................................................................... 489 Daniela Hahn TIMELINE 1968-1980 ....................................................................................................................................... 515 Theresa Dann SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.............................................................................................................................. 536 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................................................................................................................................... 558 PHOTO CREDITS ................................................................................................................................................ 559 IM PRINT................................................................................................................................................... 560.