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Barbara Hammer: In This Body

2019; The Visual Studies Workshop; Volume: 46; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/aft.2019.463007

2578-8531

Annie Dell’Aria,

Photography and Visual Culture

Book Review| September 03 2019 Barbara Hammer: In This Body: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio: June 1–August 11, 2019 Annie Dell’Aria Annie Dell’Aria Annie Dell’Aria is an art historian studying the intersection of contemporary art, media, and public space, and is an assistant professor of art history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Annie Dell’Aria is an art historian studying the intersection of contemporary art, media, and public space, and is an assistant professor of art history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Afterimage (2019) 46 (3): 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Annie Dell’Aria; Barbara Hammer: In This Body: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio: June 1–August 11, 2019. Afterimage 3 September 2019; 46 (3): 49–54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463007 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search This past March saw the loss of two pioneering artists and filmmakers who made the body and women’s sexuality central to their work: Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann. While Schneemann’s practice is often cited as multidisciplinary, Hammer is primarily celebrated within the contexts of queer and experimental cinema. Barbara Hammer: In This Body, an exhibition curated by Jennifer Lange at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University in Columbus, looked to the artist’s interdisciplinary works, particularly those that focus on the body’s vulnerability and fragility as read through the textures of media [Image 1]. Known primarily for her work to make visible the lives and bodies of lesbians through film and video, Hammer was also deeply attuned to women’s similarly invisible experiences with disease. Like Hammer’s ecstatic study of intimacy through the pleasures of touch in hallmark films like Dyketactics (1974), the film, video, photography,... You do not currently have access to this content.