September 2010
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WILL WORK FOR ART →
artists talking about the side jobs they take on to support their work. a good idea for a panel. too bad i cant go.
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Tonight's seminar with Cixous is like the feminist...
what jeanne says is true.
whateverjeanne:
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
“The Laugh of the Medusa” (1975)
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"is feminist archiving the same as other kinds of...
it was a good question, asked by someone interested in the (new) historicization of feminism, and of womens writing, the kind that didnt exist when helene cixous called for l’ecriture feminine in laugh of the medusa 35 years ago.
cixous, who derrida once called “the best writer in my language,” told the 40 or so of us gathered to celebrate medusa’s anniversary that she...
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sianne ngai at lang on monday →
i love ugly feelings and am psyched about her new work on aesthetic categories.
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these grrrl mixtapes are the adorablest →
(tulletulle)(missworld)
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i want to try to go see these obscene-ish films by marina abramovic, marilyn minter (whose “green pink caviar” is below), and more. also maybe the panel with holly hughes and carolee schneemann tomorrow night.
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“lesbian feminist icon dies unnoticed, but not by us”
jill johnstons death seems extra-heartbreaking, since i found about it because i googled kate millett after seeing her sitting on the sidewalk today, mumbling to herself, surrounded by trash bags. it was really, really, really sad. i came home and found my copy of the loony-bin trip, but im not really ready to read it.
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“the way our mind organizes our memories, at...
i would also like to see the sara vanderbeek show at the whitney. its up through dec 5.
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who wants to go to LIC with me?
the show is up through november 14th.
(via fuckyeahyokoono)
Group Show: Recipes for an Encounter
Recipes for an Encounter displays historical and contemporary artworks from the 1960s to the present that are characterized by a set of instructions or rules that allow the viewer to be an active participant in the artwork. Often times yielding to chance to determine their outcome, these...
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I Heart Feminist Boys (& Abortion!) →
jeannes tumblr is required reading and obviously pro-choice doctor t-shirts are the best.
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"why isnt there any vag art?"
“is it because most of this work is from the permanent collection?”
mikki asked this smart question last night while contemplating some of the tamer works by hannah wilke and judy chicago at shifting the gaze. maybe the jewish museum is kind of conservative in their acquisitions? sort of like the mother who told her daughter that women needed to excel in painting if they were ever to...
“there is no purifying language of its traumatic residue, and no way to work through trauma except through the arduous effort it takes to direct the course of its repetition. it may be that trauma constitutes a strange kind of resource, and repetition, its vexed but promising instrument.”
—judith butler in excitable speech
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ann liv youngs purposely failed femininity
“On Friday she was consistently upstaged by an audience member with more nerve and technique than she. He was naked other than his shoes, middle-aged and entirely well behaved. When Ms. Young asked him to deliver a poem, he improvised one, with rhymes. It wasn’t good, but it had a pacing, a vocal projection and a pointedness that wholly surpassed hers. She had to shut him up in midflow. If...
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HS: But how can you tell what the audience is like if you
are not very directly interacting with them? How can
you tell what the range of intelligence is? I was
wondering all the time during the performance what kind
of audience you were pitching it at.
DA: You don't know what it is but you feel it out--at the
beginning of a piece I have...
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now youre standing somewhere and im
standing somewhere in semantic space and theyre not the
same place because i find it hard to imagine us all or any of us
standing in precisely the same place even in semantic space
now supposing from where im standing "blue" looks pretty
close to abstract and from where youre standing it looks
pretty close to concrete i...
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lesbian lives in the 70s conference →
no words.
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random ditmas park facts
No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes, books that change us, neighborhoods we move into and come to love.
—adrienne rich, xvii, twenty-one love poems
random ditmas park facts i have tried to impress upon non-believers after theyve resisted “its diverse!” “i dont know, im just...
