Isobel Harbison
Books
Performing Image, published in 2019 by the MIT Press, explored the evolution and intersection of performance and moving image in modern and contemporary art in relation to the development of social media, and the deployment of prosumers. Link here.
This book tells the true story of a woman neon sign designer active in Las Vegas from the 1950s, and how other women were drawn to work beneath her signs. From strippers, singers and entertainers, to cleaners and croupiers, entrepreneurs and organisers, artists, writers and filmmakers, it traces a unique time and place and offers a rumination on night, light, women and power (to be published by MUP in 2026)
*Shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2024
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