Join us to celebrate the launch of Jaye Early’s new publication, Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces (2025).
This is the first book of its kind to examine the development of the confessional subject in video art and demonstrate how it can provide a vital platform for navigating the politics of self, subjectivity, and resistance in society.
Analysing a diverse selection of case studies from the 1960s up to the present day, covering the work of Yoko Ono, Gillian Wearing, Ryan Trecartin, Tracey Emin, Anatasia Klose, and Heath Franco, among others, the book brings together theory and practice to look afresh at contemporary video art.
The launch will include an in-conversation with author Jaye Early and art historian and writer Nick Croggon.
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Jaye Early is a Darug man, visual artist, and lecturer at the School of Art & Design at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Working across a number of mediums including live and video-based performance and painting, his work is primarily autobiographical, navigating and responding to the consequences of placing the personal into the public.
Nick Croggon is an art historian, writer, and editor based on Gadigal and Wangal Land. He is Events and Programs Officer at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, and his recent PhD at Columbia University discusses the way new video technologies between 1968 and 1976 registered the crisis of American industrialism.
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