Performing Image av Isobel (Associate Lecturer Goldsmiths College London) Harbison

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<b>An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.</b><p>In <i>Performing Image</i>, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation—from home video to social media—suggesting how and why Western subjects might seek alternative platforms for self-expression and self-representation. In the course of her argument, Harbison offers close analyses of works by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer<b>,</b> Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, and Martine Syms.</p><p>Harbison argues that while we produce images, images also produce us—those that we take and share, those that we see and assimi