Reading Women / 2012 – 2014 / 4 hour 22 minute HD video, installed on loop with sound / eight-minute excerpt
Reading Women / 2012 – 2014 / c-prints / 36 x 30 inches each / 34 of 100 portraits pictured above
Rebecca reading Joy Williams (State of Grace, 1974); Val reading Catherine Malabou (Changing Difference, 2009); Rena reading Zadie Smith (White Teeth, 2000); Megha reading Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth, 1905); Flávia reading Clarice Lispector (Clarice na Cabeceira, pub. 2009); Bianca reading Sylvia Plath (Ariel, 1965); Evan reading Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies, 2000); Aura reading Maarit Verronen (Pimeästä Maasta, 1995);
Sarah reading Gail Scott (My Paris, 1999); Michelle reading Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943); Sara reading Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, 2008); Sheree reading Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus, 1984); Molly reading Fanny Howe (The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, 2009); Dana reading Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, 1927); Abigail reading Angela Davis (An Autobiography, 1974);
LaToya reading Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, 2010); Hsiao-Jou reading Fang-Yi Sheu (Life Attitude: I'm Not Afraid to be Different, 2007); Heather reading Chris Kraus (Summer of Hate, 2012); Cauleen reading Gwendolyn Brooks (Blacks, pub. 2008); Molly reading Roseanne Barr (My Lives, 1994); Sarah reading Zora Neale Hurston (Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States, pub. 2001);
Vicky reading Gloria Fuertes (Historia de Gloria: Amor, Humor and Desamor (Letras Hispanicas), 1983); Vanessa reading Nathalie Sarraute (Portrait d'un Inconnu, 1948); Nuiko reading Henriette Renié (Trio for Harp, Violin and Cello, 1910); Alyssa reading Patti Smith (Just Kids, 2010); Yala reading Susan Sontag (The Volcano Lover, 1992); Rebekah reading Sofia Gubaidulina (Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings, 1975); Claire reading Laura Mullen (Was O, 2012);
Whitney reading Terry Tempest Williams (When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice, 2012); Naomi reading Adrian Piper (Out of Order, Out of Sight, Vol. I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pub. 1999); Kelly reading Gabrielle Hamilton (Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, 2011); Amy reading Michelle Cliff (Abeng, 1984); Laura reading Enheduanna (Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess (2300 BCE, pub. 2001); Kira reading Mary Shelley (Frankenstein, 1818)
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