Tina Girouard: Sign-In (Paperback)

Tina Girouard

ISBN 10: 1954947194 / ISBN 13: 9781954947191

Published by Dancing Foxes Press, NY, 2025

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Paperback. A sweeping retrospective of Tina Girouard's pioneering contributions across video, performance, textile and community-based art and morePublished with Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought.From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (19462020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part of numerous influential artist communities and organizations in New York, Louisiana and Haiti, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, the restaurant Food, the Kitchen, P.S. 1 and the Festival International de la Louisiane. Her acts of upkeep, including domestic labor traditionally associated with "women's work," blurred the boundaries between artmaking and what she called life-making. Sign-In is the first comprehensive monograph on her interdisciplinary oeuvre. It gathers documentation of her work in video, performance, drawing, textile, wall works and installation, tracing Girouard's practice and legacy across genres and geographies. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tina Girouard: Sign-In (Paperback)
• Publisher: Dancing Foxes Press, NY
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954947194
• ISBN 13: 9781954947191
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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A sweeping retrospective of Tina Girouard's pioneering contributions across video, performance, textile and community-based art and more

Published with Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought.

From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946–2020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part of numerous influential artist communities and organizations in New York, Louisiana and Haiti, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, the restaurant Food, the Kitchen, P.S. 1 and the Festival International de la Louisiane. Her acts of upkeep, including domestic labor traditionally associated with "women's work," blurred the boundaries between artmaking and what she called life-making. Sign-In is the first comprehensive monograph on her interdisciplinary oeuvre. It gathers documentation of her work in video, performance, drawing, textile, wall works and installation, tracing Girouard's practice and legacy across genres and geographies.