Jane Arden Project, 2010
Images produced in response to the films "The Other Side of Underneath" and "Separation".
“By asking women artists to respond to the viewing of two of her films, Separation and The Other Side of the Underneath, this project aims to draw attention, not only to Arden’s work, but the influence and stimulus her work is able to bring to a new generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. Formed of two parts the culminating bookwork will first reproduce certain pivotal texts and new commissioned material that provide a contextual and biographical history of Arden’s oeuvre. Following this the second part will publish the contributions of a number of female artists, in the form of printed matter, audio and moving image. There will be an exhibition in June, showcasing the book alongside these multimedia works. This blog will operate as a space where a dialogue surrounding the work can develop, anchoring the progression of the project and acting as a point of information in relation to the expanded nature of my practice. Focusing on the import of her creative output in the contemporary dialogues of feminism and the anti-psychiatry movement, this active research project and the culminating bookwork will stress the still necessary endeavour to revisit and revaluate these radical histories.”
