Faith Wilding reads from her unpublished memoir at Glasgow Women’s Library, June 5, 2013 in a special release podcast to celebrate International Women’s Day 2014.
Faith Wilding: Navigating the Shoals of History and Memory
Artist, Faith Wilding presents a reading from her autobiography-in-process.
“To tell the whole story of a life the autobiographer must devise some means by which the two levels of existence can be recorded, the rapid passage of events and actions; the slow opening up of single and solemn moments of concentrated emotion.” (Virginia Woolfe, Collected Essays, Vol. IV)
Reading her father’s unpublished autobiography led Faith to think more deeply about the ways in which larger political histories come to intersect with the shape of individual lives, and how knowledge of the past is crucial to the ways we experience the present and confront the question: “Where are you from?”
She sets out to explore big themes in her “life-writing”: Origins, History, War, Pacifism, Patriarchy, failed Utopia, Doubt, Faith, Wilderness, and the Ineffable.
In this reading, Faith explores the actual process of writing, the unexpected revelations unfolding from sense memories long sunk to the bottom of her consciousness, and sheds light on her contradictory and ever-transforming self.
Faith Wilding is one of the most significant artists of her generation. She was a founding member of the Fresno and CalArts Feminist Art Programs, and she has written extensively on feminism and art. Recent work includes a collaboration with Kate Davis in 2010 for the Glasgow International Festival.
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