Lorraine O'Grady
Representing
Lorraine O’Grady (*1934, USA) is an artist and critic whose installations, performances and texts address issues of Diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity. She came to art late, making her first artworks in 1980 after working as a literary translator and rock critic. Ultimately her broad background contributes to a distanced and critical view of the art world and to a broadly interdisciplinary approach to making art.
artist's website: lorraineogrady.com
O’Gradys informal talk deals with her work as a black performance artist at a time when feminist performance was almost exclusively white. "Representing" is an African-American slang term for the problematic that has frequently confronted minority artists and intellectuals both then and now – that of speaking not just for themselves individually, but as representatives of a minority. O’Grady discusses her work’s ambivalent acceptance and refusal of that task.
Format
Audio Document
Document media
Artist's Talk
Issue date
2009
To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 23.1.2009 / 3:45 pm