This volume is the first in the Museum Ludwig's new series In their own words. The series is
dedicated to contemporary artists who in addition to their visual oeuvre have produced texts
that take an independent approach to the concerns of their times and presents above all
approaches that have proved influential and continue to inform current debates. VALIE EXPORT is
regarded as one of the most important international pioneers of conceptual media art
performance and experimental film. In the late 1960s her often provocative installations
films and actions caused an uproar. From the outset VALIE EXPORT has written not only
detailed concepts for her projects but also theoretical essays poems notes and lectures. A
large number of her published texts have been made accessible here in one book along with a
selection of printed interviews and unpublished notes and lectures created between 1967 and
2020.
