Join SF Camerawork for a special evening with artist Martha Wilson as they celebrate the release of her new book, Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces, a collection of primary research materials consisting of rare archival documents and excerpts of landmark publications that influenced Wilson and her approach to activism and art. Martha Wilson Sourcebook is the first in a new ICI publication series that offers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural issues impacting and inspiring artists practices, comprised of materials that the artist selects from their own archive and annotates with personal commentaries. Wilson’s selection encapsulates the contestations around feminism, performance art and alternative spaces, accentuating the ways that identity and positioning are not just self-defined or projected, but also negotiated within ones environment and through ones critical reception. This unique selection of materials documents Wilsons actions and work and reveals her interest in fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Spero and Lynda Benglis and includes in its entirety Lucy Lippards exhibition catalogue for c. 7,500, the groundbreaking 1973 exhibition of women Conceptual artists, which first declared the significance of Wilsons work. A copy of the Sourcebook can be purchased here on ICIs Website, and there will be a book signing for the publication following the reading.
