How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most radical and most significant audiovisual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume focuses on her cinematic work as a universe of options for action, as a visionary springboard for perceiving and reshaping a society riddled with patriarchal structures. The authors of the book have taken up the editors' invitation to look back at individual works by VALIE EXPORT and reflect on ways to transpose them into the present and on their political potential. Their contributions touch on questions of identity and difference as well as the possibilities of communication and the refusal to communicate; the self-positioning of women*, gendernonconforming, and disablized people in the fields of art, film, and media and their frames of reference – war, division, fragmentation, objectification, non-belonging.
 
With contributions by Erika Balsom, Monika Bernold, Christa Blümlinger, Sabeth Buchmann, Silvia Eiblmayr, VALIE EXPORT, Sabine Folie, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Ulrike Hanstein, Caroline Heider, Gabu Heindl und Drehli Robnik, Elfriede Jelinek, Gertrud Koch, Ira Konyukhova, Sophie Lewis, Vrääth Öhner, Sylvia Sadzinski, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Jul Marian Schadauer, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Inna Shevchenko, Elisabeth Streit und Tom Waibel, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Renée Winter, David Wittinghofer, and the editors.

A project by the Austrian Film Museum, with support of Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, Kontakt Collection, the VALIE EXPORT Foundation, and Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, London Paris Salzburg Milan Seoul
  
How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT
Edited by Katharina Müller, Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein 
Spector Books
Leipzig 2025, ca. 200 pages, in English
ISBN 978-3-95905-898-8
Table of Contents (PDF)

The German edition is available at ISBN 978–3–95905–890–2

Book presentation on May 7, 2025 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and on May 21, 2025 at Belvedere 21 (Vienna).

Pre-orders are already being accepted - shipping is expected to start on June 12, 2025.