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*, gender- nonconforming, and disablized people in the fields of art, film, and media and their frames of reference—war, division, fragmentation, objectification, non-belonging. The book is published in collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna.