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fem·in·art

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About Me

fem·in·art is a campus organization at UCLA, founded in 2005, where members meet to establish an open dialog about art informed by feminisms.

My Interests

art, feminist intersectionalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ability, size, age (among others)..... Laura Aguilar, Chantal Akerman, Laurie Anderson, Ghada Amer, Janine Antoni, ASCO, Judy Baca, Lynda Benglis, Michele Benzamin-Miki, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, AA Bronson, Nancy Buchanan, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Dorit Cypis, Angela Davis, Disband, Harry Dodge, Jennifer Doyle, Barbara Drucker, Nicole Eisenman, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Renee Green, Gronk, Guerrilla Girls Broadband, Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mona Hatoum, Eva Hesse, bell hooks, Emily Jacir, Phyllis Jackson, Joan Jonas, Amelia Jones, David Joselitz, Frida Kahlo, Geeta Kapur, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne Lacy, Joanne Leonard, Lucy Lippard, Yolanda Lopez, LTTR, Catherine Lord, Audre Lorde, James Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, Yong Soon Min, Trihn T. Minh-Ha, Susan Mogul, Michael Moore, Amitis Motevalli, Mujeres Muralistas, Laura Mulvey, Wangechi Mutu, Senga Nengudi, Shirin Neshat, Lorraine O'Grady, Catherine Opie, Meret Oppenheim, Julie Orser, Peggy Phelan, Howardena Pindell, Sheila Pinkel, Adrian Piper, Lari Pittman, Yvonne Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Rosenthal, Martha Rosler, Alison Saar, Bettye Saar, Lezley Saar, Edward Said, Connie Samaras, Miriam Schapiro, Julia Scher, Carolee Schneemann, Mira Schor, SCWCA, Peter Sellars, Cindy Sherman, Shahzia Sikander, Susan Sontag, Nancy Spero, Spiderwoman Theatre, Atsuko Tanaka, Diana Thater, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marcia Tucker, Victoria Vesna, Alice Walker, Kara Walker, WCA, Carrie Mae Weems, Jane Weinstock, Patty Wickman, Hannah Wilke, Judith Wilson, Martha Wilson, Suzanne Wright

I'd like to meet:

artists/feminists of all genders and ethnicities

Movies:

Sicko

Books:

Art and Feminism (Peggy Phelan), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (ed. Amelia Jones), Out of Order, Out of Sight (Adrian Piper), The Power of Feminist Art (Broude and Garrard), The Heart of the Question: The Writings and Paintings of Howardena Pindell, Mona Hatoum: The Entire World as a Foreign Land (Edward Said), Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000 (ed. Hilary Robinson), Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader (ed. Hackett and Haslanger), Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (ed. Ella Shohat), Orientalism (Edward Said), The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (Lucy Lippard), Acting Out: Feminist Performances (ed. Hart and Phelan), The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art (Guerrilla Girls), Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (bell hooks), Bad Girls (catalog for exhibit - Marcia Tucker), Women, Art, and Power: And Other Essays (Linda Nochlin), Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (Lucy Lippard), Wet: ..ing, Feminism, and Art Culture (Mira Schor), Imaging Desire (Mary Kelly), Visual and Other Pleasures (Laura Mulvey)Post-Partum Document (Mary Kelly), The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (Catherine Lord), Eva Hesse (Lucy Lippard)

Heroes:

reality

My Blog

CALL 4 TRANS ACTIVISTS 2 PROTEST TRANSPHOBIC FILM

Reposted from:http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/07/203106.phpCALL TO ACTION TO ALL TRANS PEOPLE AND ALLIES: Attend THE GENDERCATOR screening and hold the gay and lesbian community accountable! On Satu...
Posted by fem·in·art on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:19:00 PST

Holly Myers on Multiple Vantage Points, LA Times, March 13

Feminist art exhibit measures magic, beautyBy Holly Myers, Special to The TimesThanks to an impressive display of trans-institutional organizing, feminist fever is sweeping the Southland this season, ...
Posted by fem·in·art on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:53:00 PST

Holland Cotter in the NY Times on WACK!

The Art of Feminism as It First Took ShapeBy HOLLAND COTTERPublished: March 9, 2007LOS ANGELES, March 4  If you've held your breath for 40 years waiting for something to happen, your feelings can't h...
Posted by fem·in·art on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:36:00 PST

Exhibit - WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution March 4  July 16, 2007   The Geffen Contemporary 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013 The first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine t...
Posted by fem·in·art on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:29:00 PST

Exhibit - Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006

Exhibition Dates - February 25 - April 15, 2007 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 4800 Hollywood BlvdHollywood, California 90027   Opening Reception Public Invited: Sunday, February 25, from 2-5...
Posted by fem·in·art on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:16:00 PST

NY Times article on MoMA's "Feminist Future" symposium

January 29, 2007 Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage By HOLLAND COTTER "Well, this is quite a turnout for an 'ism,' " said the art historian and critic Lucy Lippard on Friday morning as she loo...
Posted by fem·in·art on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:43:00 PST

Feminist Future, MoMA symp. Live Audio www.wps1.org, 1/26-27, 9a-6p est

ART RADIO WPS1.ORG TO STREAMCAST LIVE AUDIO FROM THE MOMA SYMPOSIUM THE FEMINIST FUTURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE VISUAL ARTS   FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 AND 27 9:00 A.M. - 6 P...
Posted by fem·in·art on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:47:00 PST