Index

6 INTRODUCTION 

10 1963-1972

Early Works - Suicide Machines -
Face Stamps - The Art Criticism of 
Gay Abandon, Herbert Goode, and 
Prudence Juris - Performance Dinners

44 THE WORK OF LYNN 
HERSHMAN LEESON: 
A PANOPLY OF IDENTITIES
Peter Weibel

56 GENEALOGY IN WAX
Pamela M. Lee

64 1973-1975

The Dante Hotel - Forming a Sculpture 
Drama in Manhattan - Roberta Breitmore 
series - The Floating Museum - Lady 
Luck: A Double Portrait of Las Vegas -
RE:Forming FamiliaT Environments

100 THE ROBERTA 
BREITMORE SERIES: 
PERFORMING CO-IDENTITY

Peggy Phelan

110 1976-1979

25 Windows: A Portrait / Project for
Bonwit Teller - Water Women series -
Rehearsals - Dream Weekend -
A Commercial for Myself - Lynn 
Turning into Roberta - Test Patterns -
Fire Works

132 LANDSCAPE OF TREMORS: 
LYNN HERSHMAN 
LEESON, TOWARD AN 
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Kristine Stiles

140 1979-1983
Myth America Corporation (MAHC) -
Hero Sandwich series - Non Credited 
Americans - The Making of the Rough
and (Very) Incomplete Pilot for
the Videodisk on the Life and Work of 
Marcel Duchamp According to Murphy's
Law - Chain Reaction: An Environmental
"Light" Opera for Fog, Film, and 
Recombinant News

152 CONVERSATION

Lynn Hershman and Nam June Paik,
April 1980

156 1983-1984
Time Frame series - Lorna - Deep 
Contact - Prisoner of Paradise -
Rebecca 28-30: The Evolution of 
an Unknown Woman - New Acquisitions

172 INTERVIEW WITH LYNN 
HERSHMAN LEESON

Hou Hanru

180 1985-1991
Phantom Limb series - Endangered 
Species - The Electronic Diaries -
Desire Inc. - Longshot - America's 
Finest - Conspiracy of Silence -
Seeing Is Believing

198 FACE, SURFACE, 
INTERFACE: THE MOTIF 
OF THE MASK IN 
THE WORK OF LYNN 
HERSHMAN LEESON

Andreas Beitin

210 1992-1995
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love 
Story - Cut Piece: A Video Homage to 
Yoko Ono - Room of One's Own - Virtual 
Love - Found Footage (Formally Titled: 
Beautiful People - Beautiful Friends) -
Seduction of a Cyborg - Twists in 
the Cord (or) _ Other Extensions of 
the Telephone — Virtual Voices — Double 
Cross Click Click

222 GLOBAL SPACE 
INVADERS: THE SOCIAL 
INTERVENTIONS OF 
THE FLOATING MUSEUM

Kyle Stephan

234 1995-2000
Paranoid Mirror — Digital Venus 
series — The Dollie Clones -
B Files - Cyborg series - Conceiving 
Ada — Camera Obscura - Difference 
Engine #3 — Synthia Stock Ticker

254 CALIFORNIA DREAMING: 
THE CINEMATIC 
FUSIONS OF LYNN 
HERSHMAN LEESON

B. Ruby Rich

264 LETTER TO LYNN 
Tilda Swinton

266 2002-2007
Teknolust - Agent Ruby - DiNA -
Olympia: Fictive Projections and 
the Myth of the Real Woman -
Life Squared - Strange Culture

284 (NO) VACANCY 
Jeffrey T. Schnapp

292 2008-2011
Global Mind Radar/Reader (An Emotional 
Barometer) - No Body Special -
Contemporary Slavery 1 - Sugar Addiction 
series - !W.A.R. / IWomen Art Revolution -
iPhone Crack series — Alchemist Wand 
for the 21st Century - Home Front, Cycles 
of Contention - Look at Me

304 CONVERSATION
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Laura Poitras

312 SINCE 2012
Disaster Aesthetics - Present Tense -
Cut and Paste series - Past Tense -
The Infinity Engine

330 THE INFINITY ENGINE
Ingeborg Reichle

336 LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON 
CIVIC RADAR
ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Karlsruhe, December 13, 2014-
April 6, 2015

360 TEXTS 1984-2014 
Lynn Hershman Leeson

370 APPENDIX
Biography - Selected Solo Exhibitions -
Selected Group Exhibitions - Awards and 
Grants - Bibliography - Collections -
Photo Credits