Dara Birnbaum1977111977Franklin FurnaceNotebooks, Workbooks, Scripts, and ScoresAlex Kitnick

1987Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman 1979Girls: Make Them Cry

1975Back PieceAttack PieceMirroring1976Liberty: A Dozen or So Views Relationship Perspectives: Perspective RelationshipsAmerica: Land of Contrasts (A Day of Awakening) (A Shot in the Dark)Pivot: Turning Around Suppositions 1997Lesson Plans to Keep the Revolution Alive

Originally created in 1977 as a single handmade copy, Dara Birnbaums Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) gathers writings, working drawings, photographic documentation, and ephemera from the artists earliest video and installation works. The publication was originally produced by Birnbaum and exhibited in Notebooks, Workbooks, Scripts, and Scores at Franklin Furnace in 1977. The books vinyl cover and section dividers, hand-folded pages, and color images have all been reproduced, and Alex Kitnick provides a new introduction.

Note(s) provides a rare look into Birnbaums early investigations of video art and its relationship to television. Her work of this period orchestrates a complex circuit of viewership and representation, in which her interest in psychoanalytic conceptsprojective identification, regression, resistance, and intersubjectivityare analyzed in tandem with the formal and interpersonal politics of image making. These investigations lay the groundwork for the artists breakthrough works, such as Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman and Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry, in which she appropriates popular television programs to critique the language and images of networked television.

Featured works include Back Piece (1975), Attack Piece (1975), Mirroring (1975), Liberty: A Dozen or So Views (1976), Relationship Perspectives: Perspective Relationships (197677), America: Land of Contrasts (A Day of Awakening) (A Shot in the Dark) (197677), Pivot: Turning Around Suppositions (1976), and Lesson Plans to Keep the Revolution Alive (1977).