Tina Girouard: Sign-In
Aruna D’Souza author Pamela M Lee author Anaïs Duplan author Lumi Tan author Andrea Andersson editor Jordan Amirkhani editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dancing Foxes Press
Published:25th Dec '25
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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.
Essays by Aruna D’Souza, Jordan Amirkhani, and Pamela M. Lee round out the volume, which includes an opening abecedarium detailing the important sites Girouard helped establish, and a poignant introduction by Andersson that positions Girouard’s “memory maps” as both sigil and guide. Readers of this invaluable text can use these maps, and the rich ephemera of Girouard’s life and practice, to do what the artist herself had done from the very beginning: find a way to keep going forward with a strong sense of where we’ve come from. -- Tausif Noor * Bookforum *
ISBN: 9781954947191
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416 pages