► Woman's Building History: Vanalyne Green (from Otis College)

Vanalyne Green is artist, writer and teacher interested in the legacy of Second Wave Feminism in current thinking around affect, citizenship as a visceral reality, curatorial practices, social geographies, and spectacular ways of representing the pedestrian. Her video art has screened extensively, including the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Videotheque de Paris, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, the Guggenheim Museum and many other museums, universities and film festivals. Her writing is included in Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, the upcoming What do Artists Know? edited by James Elkins, Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by R. Trebor Scholz, and Parallax, among other books and journals Publications about, and interviews with, Green can be found in Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties by Linda M. Montano, Women of Vision by Alexandra Juhasz, and "In Search of the Centaur: The Essay Film," by Phillip Lopate, among other publications. Her videotape "A Spy in the House that Ruth Built" was listed as one of the 1,000 best films ever made by film critic and author Jonathan Rosenbaum. Green was a founding member of No More Nice Girls, NY, and Feel Tank Chicago. She lives with her partner in Northern England. Video Data Bank Learning Through Digital Media: Ersatz: This video was commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design for the exhibition "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" (1973-1991) in the Ben Maltz Gallery, October 1 December 3, 2011. This video is part of an ongoing series of oral histories about the Woman's Building (partially funded by the Getty Foundation). The exhibition is part of a "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945-1980," a Fall 2011 citywide initiative sponsored by the Getty Foundation.