The 29 photographs that make up Barbara Hammer's 2017 exhibition "Truant: Photographs, 1970 – 1979" at Company Gallery in New York City, have often been described as documentation of utopic, or, in the case of an essay by the artist A.L. Steiner for the exhibition's accompanying catalogue, 'heterotopic'—a world within a world, othered.
In this chapter of New Friend, we trace Barbara Hammer's artistic and personal trajectory through the waning thrust of 20th century white North American utopian/heterotopian ideals, from the back-to-the-land movement to lesbian feminism, and towards Hornby Island—an island so often associated with, and troubled by utopian aspirations.
New Friend is a five-part radio documentary exploring the context behind a series of photographs taken by the ...
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