Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) needs no introduction. One of the great American artists of her generation, she revolutionised dance and choreography in the 1960s. Yet over the course of two decades – from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s – Rainer also directed seven feature films, each intensely discursive and consistently inviting critical reflection. Radically diverse and impossible to categorise, her films carve out their own space between documentary, fiction, performance, and the avant-garde. For decades, these films have been difficult to access, and when shown, they were often confined to small monitors in large museum settings. Now, newly restored in 4K, they were presented in a retrospective by Terrassen in 2024 – the first of its kind in Denmark. The retrospective culminated in the publication of a new Yvonne Rainer filmography, with contributions from Babette Mangolte, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Mira Adoumier, Emily Wardill, Emily LaBarge, Amelia Groom, Valérie Massadian, Iman Mohammed, Frida Sandström and Yvonne Rainer herself.

With texts from B. Ruby Rich, Teresa de Lauretis, Bérénice Reynaud, Laura Poitras, Susanne Fairfax, and Kurt Easterwood.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of Performance into Politics by Yvonne Rainer at the Barbican Centre, London, 10 June–15 July, 1998.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Card from a tear-off calendar with artist postcards for a series of events and screenings in the Groninger Museum in August 1977. Including artists were Fitzgibbon & Winters, Dekker, Taal Handelingen, Carolee Schnemann, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, Michael Waisvisz, David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Paul Sharits, Chris Langdon, Pieter Holstein, Nan Hoover, Barbara Bloom, Vito Acconci, Charlemagne Palestine.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Yvonne Rainer: Space, Body, Language at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, 4 February–9 March, 2012. This many-sided project offered detailed and far-ranging insight into the legendary work of Yvonne Rainer, Presenting photographs and film documentations of stage works, notebooks, dance scores, scripts, and movie and exhibition posters.

With essays by Gabriele Brandstetter, Douglas Crimp, Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Volker Pantenburg, and Catherine Wood.

Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961–73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art.

Assembled ostensibly as a survey, Work 1961–73 features a multitude of documentary forms, including scripts, excerpts from the artist’s notebooks, press reviews, correspondence, photographic documentation, literary excerpts, contextualizing texts by the artist, diagrams, film stills, floor plans, scores, and more. As such, the publication resembles an artist book that generously gives the reader access to Rainer’s modes of working, as well as the social and political context around which the work was made. The publication is also a book of writing, with the artist’s frank, witty, and sometimes humorous prose intimately leading the reader through each work.