Carlota Dertnig : Moving Histories and Discourse = Vidéos Colloque : Discours et histoires en mouvement

"Since the late 1990s Carola Dertnig’s work and research has questioned the canonization of conceptual and performance based art forms, from a feminist and queer perspective using the example of Viennese Actionism as a point of departure. Presenting the curatorial and artistic research for her publications Let’s Twist Again (2002 to 2004) and exhibition Mothers of Invention (2004) , Dertnig will deconstruct the politics of authorship of women actionnists by unwinding the complex histories of performance avant-gardes since the 1960s on a local, as well from a global perspective. Followed by a conversation with Vanessa Parent." -- Publisher's website

As She Likes It : Female Performance Art from Austria

"In the 1960s and 1970s actionism and happenings provided a foundation for performance art, the exceptional form in which women are as numerous but more recognized as men. Three generations of artists set out in As She Likes It to formulate a statement on our times, using the expressive power of voice and body, dispensing with exclusion of the male world more self-confidently than in the early years." --Publisher's website