Biopolitical Effigies: The Volatile Life-Cast in the Work of Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Tomic, Milena
Date published
2015
Abstract
In the late 1960s and early 1970s American artists Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson independently created wax effigies and situated them within immersive or performative contexts that transformed the visual language of sovereignty and dignified the socially marginal body. This paper explores lost installations by both artists, where the effigy’s connotations of volatility challenged biopolitical systems of control as well as the reduction of individuals to stereotypes.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
24
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection