Pipilotti Rist

Peggy Phelan is among the world's best-known contemporary feminist theorists and has written extensively on contemporary visual arts and performance. She is Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He has been co-curator of such international biennials as Manifesta 1 (Rotterdam, 1996), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 2nd Guangzhou Biennale (2005). Currently Inviato Speciale of Domus magazine, Obrist has also edited more than sixty books, including Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1 (2003) and do it (2005). Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, she has also written articles in the areas of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and art. Her most recent publication is The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press, 1998).

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• Interview - Paris-based critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist looks at the work in relation to notions of Utopia. * Survey - New York-based feminist theorist Peggy Phelan looks across Pipilotti Rist's oeuvre to examine the artist's innovation in video technology in the creation of a new female image. * Focus - Writer Elizabeth Bronfem examines the psychoanalytical implications of one video work Absolutions (Pipilotti's Mistakes) (1988) * Artist's Choice - The artist has chosen two selections from poet Anne Sexton and novelist Richard Brautigan. * Artist's Writings - The artist's descriptions of her dreams, highly influential in the realization of her imagery, are set alongside a homage to video pioneer Nam June Paik. * Chronology and Bibliography