Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity

This inspired contribution engages Foucault’s late theories of “technologies of the self” with the burgeoning digital landscape of confessional art video in recent decades, especially in the U.S. and the U.K, offering lively accounts of the author’s own artworks amongst many others.’ * Thomas Waugh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec *

A compelling exploration of how contemporary confessional video art complicates the intersections of subjectivity, privacy and public space. Jaye Early astutely connects Foucauldian analysis with recentvideo art practices to offer profound insights into contested relationships between privateexperience and public expression in a media-saturated world.

* Sean Lowry, Associate Professor and Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia *This timely book explores the confessional subject within contemporary video art, offering a new framework by which to understand this genre of media art as a socio-political tool for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity and resistance in society. * Ina Blom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway *Provides a fascinating review of confessional video art and its theoretical contexts, informed by active practice in the field. He highlights the potential of an increasingly pervasive form of self-representation to elude the regulatory limitations imposed on subjectivity by power. * Dr Matt Huppatz, Lecturer in Contemporary Art, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia *