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Laura Cottingham (born 1959) is an critic, curator and visual artist. She lives in the East Village. Her most recent book is "Fear Eats the Soul" (London: British Film Institute, 2005). Her best known videos are "Not For Sale", 1998 and "The Anita Pallenberg Story," 2000. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe and in New York City. In 2006 she co-curated Sweden's annual national exhibition for the Lilevalchs Konsthalle, Stockholm. She served as a guest curator at The Louisiana Museum, Denmark and for Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. She has taught at the graduate visual arts programs at Rutgers University, The School of Visual Arts, The Pratt Institute and Columbia University, New York.

Works

Laura Cottingham is a graduate of Notre Dame Academy, Park Hills, Kentucky and of The College of the University of Chicago. In 1981-82 she was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program.Her activities have been primarily concentrated in Europe---including Austria, Germany, France, Spain, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden---where she has published, exhibited and lectured widely. Her work is concerned with reconsidering the meaning of art in light of the countercultural values of circa 1968. Her influences include Fluxus, Rock and Roll, Punk (Dee Dee Ramone kissed her), Ballet, Radical Feminism, Gay Rights, Black Power, Zen, Gestalt.

She is author, most recently, of a book on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, "Fear Eats the Soul" (London, 2005). Her other books include "Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art" (Amsterdam, 2000); "Lesbians Are So Chic..." (London, 1996) and "How many 'bad' feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?" (New York, 1994), which is also in French (Lyon, 1999). She is best known for her work recuperating Seventies Feminist Art and has published extensively on many of the artists of that period, as well as on artists of her own generation.

Her "Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s," 1998, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Anita Pallenberg Story," 2000, is a satire on the international art scene that features Cottingham playing Mick Jagger; other art world personalities likewise appear in this Warhol-like drama, including collector Peter Norton ("Norton Utilities") who plays as a Pizza Delivery Boy. "Pallenberg" is the subject of a website: "LOVE, SEX, FAME and the LIFE OF THE IMAGE: On the making of the Anita Pallenberg Story" at www.haussite.net / Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart[1].

In 2000 Cottingham performed as a dancer with the Stanley Love Performance Group in New York.

Her name is featured in the Le Tigre song, "Hot Topic".

Her guest curatorial projects include "NowHere,"1996, for The Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark; "Vraiment Feminisme et art," 1997, for Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; and "Work Out: Varsalogen 2006" at the Lilejvaks Konsthall, Stockholm.

She has been a guest professor at various art schools and universities, including, The Danish Royal Academy, The Pratt Institute, Rutgers University, The School of Visual Arts, and The Cooper Union.

References

  1. ^ www.haussite.net with redirect to the project website (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart)

Bibliography

  • How many "bad" feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? (New York: Sixty Percent Solution, 1994) [French edition, 2002, ISBN 2-912631-01-7]
  • Lesbians are so chic…That We Are Not Really Lesbians at All (New York: Cassell, 1996) ISBN 0-304-33721-8
  • Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art (New York: G+B Arts International, 1999) ISBN 90-5701-212-X
  • Fear Eats the Soul (London: British Film Institute, 2005) ISBN 1-84457-071-1

Fine Art Videography

  • NOT FOR SALE: Feminism and Art in the USA during the 1970s, 1998, 90 minutes. Premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1998; subsequently exhibited in Los Angeles, Vienna, London, Paris, Munich, Berlin, San Antonio, San Sebastian (S), Utrecht (NL), Dublin, Ft. Worth (TX),Cambridge (UK), etc.
  • The Anita Pallenberg Story, 2000, 77 minutes. Featuring Laura Cottingham as Mick Jagger (and Brian Jones) along with a star studded cast of international fine art flunkies including art dealers Colin de Land and Gavin Brown; collector and software genius Peter Norton ("Norton Utilities"); gallery artists from Europe and the USA including, in the title role, Cosima von Bonin.
  • Various Shorts, since 1992, including special features on Manhattan Cable and additional gallery and museum works.
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