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About the Video Makers -- Biographical information

Laura Cottingham is a preeminent feminist art critic currently living in New York City where she is a Visiting Professor in the College of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Her criticism is featured in many recent anthologies and museum catalogues from Europe and the United States, including Claude Cahun (Munich, 1997), Sunshine & Noir (Copenhagen, 1997), Inside the Visible (Boston, 1996), L'art au corps (Marseilles, 1996), Sexual Politics (Los Angeles, 1996), The Power of Feminist Art (New York, 1994), Bad Girls (London, 1994), and New Feminist Art Criticism (New York, 1993).

She is also the author of How Many Bad Feminists Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb? (New York, 1994) and Lesbians are so chic... (London, 1996). A collection of her essays on feminism and art, Seeing Through the Seventies, is scheduled for release in the Fall of 1998 by G&B International.

Most recently, Laura Cottingham has curated two European exhibitions of feminist art: Incandescent at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in 1996; and Vraiment: feminisme et l'art at the Centre national d'art contemporain in Grenoble in 1997.

Sally Sasso is a videomaker and freelance editor. From 1994-96, she was Co-Producer of Dyke TV News, New York.
She is also the director of the experimental short "Spin Out" 1996, and of a documentary, "Rock the Sham " 1997, which chronicles the unsuccessful efforts of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization to march in New York City's annual St. Patrick's day parade.

Leslie Singer began her independent film career in the underground performance and Super 8 art scene in San Francisco in the early 80s.
A selection of her early films was recently featured in "Big as Life" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her video works, including "Hot Rox,"1988, and "Taking Back the Dolls," 1994, have been widely exhibited in museums and festivals in Europe and the United States.

She is currently working with Laura Cottingham on an experimental narrative, "The Anita Pallenberg Story."