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Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces

Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces

Early, Jaye

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1350400246
ISBN13: 9781350400245
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society. In doing so, it reframes video art - the most ubiquitous and yet most understudied art form of recent decades - as an urgent socio-political tool that is increasingly popular among contemporary artists as a means of exploring a broad range of social issues, from politics and identity, to the body and technologies of self-representation.

Analysing a diverse selection of case studies from the 1960s up to the present day, covering the work of Yoko Ono, Gillian Wearing, Ryan Trecartin, Tracey Emin, Anatasia Klose, and Heath Franco, among others, the book brings together theory and practice to look afresh at contemporary video art through a Foucauldian lens. It also brings the analysis of video art up to date by showing how social media and digital self representation has informed and further politicized time-based art practices.

Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity shows how forms of confessional discourse not only play an important function in the construction of subjectivity but also open spaces for personal resistance and agency within contemporary video art. As a result, it offers researchers of contemporary art practice, and media and cultural studies, an updated framework through which to view this constantly-evolving genre and a deeper understanding of wider contemporary video practices.

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