--- title: "181 - Performalist Self-Portraits and Video/Film Performances, Wilke 9/21-10/19 1996" date: 2017-08-21T18:27:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/181-performalist-self-portraits-and-video-film-performances-wilke-9-21-10-19-1996" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Performalist Self-Portraits and Video/Film Performances [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Sep 20 – Oct 18, 1996 ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah Snatch Shots With Ray Guns 1978 B8 1](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/Wilke-So-Help-Me-Hannah-Snatch-Shots-with-Ray-Guns-1978-B8_1.jpg) Hannah Wilke So Help Me Hannah, Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978 Description The Feldman Gallery will present video/film performances by Hannah Wilke from 1976-85 including So Help Me Hannah (1978) and Through the Large Glass (1976). The exhibition will also include photographs and other wall works related to these performances. Hannah Wilke has played a seminal and innovative role in the history of performance art and remains an important influence on contemporary art today. Throughout her career, and even before it formally started in the early l960s, Hannah Wilke periodically created work -- drawings, photographs, live appearances, videotapes, audiotapes, film, advertisements -- that involved her own performance. They began with photographs in childhood and adolescence and continued through the videos and photos that recorded her final illness with lymphoma. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Wilke/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-and-video.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) ![Wilke Philly 1977](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke/1996-Performalist-Self-Portraits/Wilke_Philly_1977.jpg) Hannah Wilke Philly, 1976 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wilke Philly 1977]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Philly, 1976 ![Wilke I Object Memoirs Of A Sugargiver 1978 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke I Object: Memoirs of a Sugargiver, 1977-78 ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah Series Portrait Of The Artist With Her Mother Selma Butter 1978 81]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke So Help Me Hannah: Portrait of the Artist with Her Mother, Selma Butter, 1978-81 ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah Snatch Shots With Ray Guns 1978 B10]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978 (from the So Help Me Hannah series) ![Wilke So Help Me Hannah Snatch Shots With Ray Guns 1978 B8]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Snatch-Shots with Ray Guns, 1978 (from the So Help Me Hannah series) ![Wilke Suit Suite Detail 1 1976 1978]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Suit Suite, DETAIL 1, 1976-1978 ![Wilke Suit Suite Detail 6 1976 1978]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Suit Suite, DETAIL 6, 1976-1978 ![Wilke Suit Suite Detail 8 1976 1978]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Hannah Wilke Suit Suite, DETAIL 8, 1976-1978 ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_05.JPG) Performalist Self-Portraits View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 03]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_05.JPG) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_04.JPG) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 03](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_03.JPG) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke/1996-Performalist-Self-Portraits/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_04.JPG) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Wilke/1996-Performalist-Self-Portraits/Wilke-Performalist-Self-Portraits-1996_05.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 03]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 04]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view ![Wilke Performalist Self Portraits 1996 05]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Performalist Self-Portraits installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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