Lecture: Exploring Lutz Bacher with Alex Kitnick (EN)
Exploring Lutz Bacher with Alex Kitnick — On Photography, Language, and Power
In the context of the exhibition Burning the Days, Alex Kitnick discusses the reputation of Lutz Bacher, which developed long after she began her practice and was often shaped more by myth than by critical discourse.
He revisits Bacher’s work to explore how it engages with questions of gender, sexuality, language, and power.
Lutz Bacher, Jackie & Me, 1989, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo. Courtesy the Estate of Lutz Bacher and Galerie Buchholz.
Alex Kitnick is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His book Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2021. His criticism appears in publications ranging from October to May.