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You'd Think So Wouldn't You?

Author: Lesley Farrell, Matthew Shaul , Amelia Jones

Price: £5 (free postage)


About the book

Artist Rachel Garfield uses video, painting and photography to explore the gap between an individual’s own perception of their identity and the perceptions of others.

All her works layer multiple experiences and viewpoints. The presence of the artist herself as both subject and interviewer is also a recurring feature.

Her video work in particular examines the history of racism and xenophobia in Europe and explores the experience of being part of ethnic-minority communities in Britain, through the narratives that people tell about their lives.

Throughout her work stereotypes are placed alongside the subject of those stereotypes to present us with a complex, multifaceted view of the individuals concerned and their relationship to their communities and histories. The viewer is never offered pointers as to how they 'ought' to respond.

  • More about the book

    With an Introduction by Lesley Farrell, an essay on the intellectual origins of Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish revolution by Matthew Shaul, and 'The Undecidability of Difference', an essay by Amelia Jones on the work of Rachel Garfield.

  • About the Author/s:

    Lesley Farrell

    Lesley Farrell is an artist and curator. She is the co-founder of the curatorial collective CommonAs.


    Matthew Shaul

    Matthew Shaul is director at Departure Lounge, a contemporary photographic gallery.


    Amelia Jones

    Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor in Art and Design and Vice-Dean of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.

    Trained in art history, film theory, and performance studies, and widely read in philosophy and identity theory, Jones is known for her work elaborating a queer, anti-racist, feminist history and theory of modern and contemporary Euro-American visual arts, including performance, film, video, and installation.

ISBN: 978-1-905313-10-5 Format: Paperback, 36pp Published: Sep 2005

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