From the 1970s until her death,
Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946–2020) was a dedicated
experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her
individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part of
numerous influential artist communities and organizations in New
York, Louisiana and Haiti, including the Anarchitecture Group, the
interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, the restaurant Food,
the Kitchen, P.S. 1 and the Festival International de la Louisiane.
Her acts of upkeep, including domestic labor traditionally associated
with “women’s work,” blurred the boundaries between artmaking
and what she called life-making. Sign-In is the first comprehensive
monograph on her interdisciplinary oeuvre. It gathers documentation
of her work in video, performance, drawing, textile, wall works and
installation, tracing Girouard’s practice and legacy across genres
and geographies.