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Michele Wallace: An Interview

Video Data Bank

1991 00:43:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Hi8 video
Tags:
African-American, Art Criticism, Interview, Race, VDB Interviews

Description

Michele Wallace's attention to the invisibility and/or fetishization of black women in the gallery and museum worlds has made possible new critical thinking around the intersection of race and gender in African American visual and popular culture, particularly in what she has called "the gap around the psychoanalytic" in contemporary African-American critical discourse.

Wallace has taught creative writing at several universities, as well as Women’s Studies at the City College of New York. She is author of Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman (1979 and 1990), Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (1990) and the organizer of Black Popular Culture, edited by Gina Dent (1992.). Wallace has written widely on feminism, gender, art and culture for such publications as The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Art Forum, The Nation, Art in America, Transition, Renaissance, Noire, Aperture and Essence, as well as a range of other journals.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1991.

The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collection features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collection includes seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present. Works in the collection employ innovative uses of form and technology, mixed with original visual style to address contemporary art and cultural themes.

Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement in the United States, the Video Data Bank is one of the nation's largest providers of alternative and art-based video. Through a successful national and international distribution service, the VDB distributes video art, documentaries made by artists, and recorded interviews with visual artists, photographers and critics.