Index
6 INTRODUCTION
10 1963-1972
Early Works - Suicide Machines -
Face Stamps - The ATt Criticism of
Gay Abandon, Herbert Goode, and
Prudence Juris - Performance Dinners
44 THE WORK OF LYNN
HERSHMAN LEESON:
A PANOPLY OF IDENTITIES
PeteT 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 (MAMCO) -
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 Mutphy's
Law - Chain Reaction: An Enviromental
"Light" Opera for Fog, Film, and
Recombinant News
152 CONVERSATION
Lynn Hershman and Nam June Paik,
April 1980
156 1983-1984
Time Frame series - Loma - 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 RadaT/Reader (An Emotional
Barometer) - No Body Special -
Contemporary Slavery 1 - Sugar Addiction
series - !W.A.R. / !Women 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