Looking for information on Annette Messager's piece The Boarders.

January 6, 2011 10:07 AM

Can anyone help me find any documentaries/interviews/lectures/texts about the french artist Annette Messager, more specifically her 1971-1972 work The Boarders?

I'm looking to uncover more information about Messager's use of taxidermy birds in her artwork, but haven't really come across too much aside from some not so scholarly gallery reviews.

I've read through the interviews from The Journal of Contemporary Art, as well as the interviews from her newest publication The Messengers, and have googled pretty much all there is to google.

Does anyone know of anything out there where this subject matter is mentioned? Maybe an art:21 interview or something?

posted by _superconductor to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

There's a documentary in French done by TV5, next airing is this Friday, if you have any way to maybe get someone to record it for you? (I'd offer, but I have neither TV nor anything to record with, sorry.) Annette Messager, pudique et publique is the documentary description link.

There's also a PDF online, about "Les Pensionnaires" (French title of "The Boarders"), written by Messager: Les Pensionnaires (PDF).

All are in French.
posted by fraula at 11:34 AM on January 6, 2011

Correction: "...next airing is next Friday" January 14th. Not "this" Friday. Oops.
posted by fraula at 11:36 AM on January 6, 2011