| Sumario: | Greer Lankton (1958–1996) was an artist associated with the 1980s East Village, whose practice spanned categories of performance, sculpture, fashion, and craft and who is best known for the creation of dolls. In the first half of the 1980s, Lankton exhibited her dolls primarily in East Village art galleries such as Civilian Warfare and Gracie Mansion; she later showed them within the East Village boutique Einstein's as well as in shop windows including the department store Barneys. Lankton created miniature and life-size dolls that were mostly made in a combination of fabric and plaster with a wire structure inside and articulated limbs, which allowed the dolls to be moved and their clothes to be changed. Lankton herself discussed the importance of playing with her dolls and the way that they straddled categories of playthings and art objects. To better capture the in-between nature of her practice, this roundtable brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines and fields of study from art history, fashion history, material culture history, as well as trans studies, queer theory and gender studies. Its aim is to examine Greer Lankton's work through an interdisciplinary framework in order to fully contextualize her practice not only in the context of 1980s and 1990s art, but also in connection to fashion, modeling and the material culture of dolls.
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