Critical Writing Index

The Failure to Assimilate: The Video Works of Cecilia Dougherty

by Leah Gilliam, Elisabeth Subrin and Laurie Weeks

The Failure to Assimilate: The Video Works of Cecilia Dougherty, 1998, pp. 7-15

New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1998

Exhibition catalogue notes evaluating the video works of queer artist Cecilia Dougherty, with special attention paid to Dougherty's interrogation of self/subject formation; problematization of language and historical representation; contrast of private and public spaces; and appropriation of pop culture, which comes to act as "agent of both humour and terror" in her work.

ITEM 1998.131 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

My Failure to AssimilateCecilia Dougherty

ClaudiaCecilia Dougherty

Coal Miner's GranddaughterCecilia Dougherty

Joe-JoeCecilia Dougherty

The dream and the wakingCecilia Dougherty

GrapefruitCecilia Dougherty