ANTIN, Eleanor; LIEBERT, Emily (ed.)
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s “Selves”

From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group—which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hard-working nurses—her “selves.” The selves’ manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in photographs and on video; others had paper doll surrogates; at times their existence was known only through the drawings, texts and films they had ostensibly left behind. As she explored the fleeting nature of the self, Antin used fiction, fantasy and theatricality to examine the ways that history takes shape, scrutinizing the role that visual representation plays in that process. [publishers’ note]

With essays by Emily Liebert, Huey Copeland, Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Henry Sayre.

NB: Mirror paper for the cover, hence the weird picture.

Published by The Wallach Art Gallery, 2013
Monographs / Performance