Monica Ross
Ethical Actions
A Critical Fine Art Practice

Edited by Susan Hiller, Suzanne Treister
Texts by Jorn Ebner, Eric Levi Jacobson, Alexandra M. Kokoli, Esther Leslie, Yve Lomax, Denise Robinson, Monica Ross; photographic documentation by Bernard G. Mills

British artist Monica Ross (1950–2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross’s works from 1970 to 2013, including early feminist collaborative works, drawings made at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the 1980s, poster designs for the antinuclear movement, works relating to the writings of Walter Benjamin, and documentation from the sixty performances of Anniversary—an act of memory (2008–13), solo, collective, and multilingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which concluded with a final collaborative performance at the UN in Geneva on the day of Ross’s death. With essays by Esther Leslie, Eric Levi Jacobson, Alexandra M. Kokoli, Denise Robinson, and Yve Lomax, this book is a valuable art-historical document.

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1975–79 Feministo: The Women's Postal Art Event
1978–80 Fenix (also known as Phoenix)
1980s Feminsto Collated Sculpture
1981–84 Sister Seven
1982–84 Greenham Common Sketchbooks
1984 Unquiet Woman
1985 Triple Transformations
1986 Sea Change
1987 Like Gold in the Furnace
1987 Fleur de la Lune
1990 This is Not a Photograph
1991 Neither Loaves Nor Fishes
1992 Virtual Ritual
1992 state of emergency
1993 passage
1994 impasse
1994 fall
1993 SIX DAYS OF MOMENTARY ART
1995 Store House
1996 Nummer 13
1996–2001 Iris
1997–98 Zur Brücke
1997 justfornow (and then)
2000 valentine
2000–02 valentine: the inventory
2000 history or not
2000–10 International Corporation of Lost Structures (ICOLS)
2001–04 justfornow
2001–04 Bykermorning: the view from a deserted utopia—a home movie
2005–08 rightsrepeated—an act of memory
2005 Women with Red Umbrellas
2005 reading human material
2008 Fallen idyll: the end of a perspective–a home movie
2009 House Warming
2008–13 Anniversary-an act of memory