Lives in Exchange: The Collaborative Video Tapes of Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Boaden, James
Date published
2016
Abstract
In 1972 the artists Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris swapped videotapes made collaboratively in each other’s studios to create new works that negotiate their personal and professional relationship. This article argues that, taken together, these works question the common tropes of early video art, especially what art historian Rosalind Krauss called the ‘aesthetics of narcissism’, and point to the emergence of a form of fractured subjectivity borne from technological mediation.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
25
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
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