"Female subjectivity" refers to the unique experiences, perspectives, and identities of women. It acknowledges that women have their own individual thoughts, feelings, and ways of understanding the world. It emphasizes the importance of taking into account women's voices, desires, and perspectives in various contexts, such as literature, art, or societal discussions.
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Trained as a professional dancer at the Alvin Ailey school, Narcissister's performance work explores
black female subjectivity in a manner referencing the loaded historical trajectory of American burlesque, and as of late, is making a case for radical self - love as a political act.
Along her artistic practice
exploring female subjectivity through photo and video works, she is the founding director of Franklin Furnace, an artist - run space founded in 1976 supporting the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works.
Lorraine O'Grady presents a reading of Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black
Female Subjectivity as part of the Future Feminism show at The Hole, New York.
I've been thinking about black
female subjectivity in my work for a long time and I think about how black women often use this term «tenderheaded» to describe other black women.
Coppola waxes poetic
on female subjectivity, dreamily detailing the imprisonment of girls whose boys desperately try to understand them.
A number of artists in the exhibition — including Mequitta Ahuja, Zoë Charlton, Firelei Báez, Christina Quarles, Tschabalala Self — deconstruct black
female subjectivity by reassembling disparate iconographic materials and motifs into fragmented portraits.
In her essay «Women's Time» (1981), the French theorist Julia Kristeva
describes female subjectivity as providing «a specific measure that essentially retains repetition and eternity from among the multiple modalities of time known through the history of civilizations.»
Here, Artspace's editor Loney Abrams speaks with the duo about their take on the fashion industry, how their show at Gavin Brown has (and hasn't) influenced the way they work, and about the Romanov princess who gained a cult - like following after they were put to death during the Russian Revolution — and inspired McGowan and Barringer to make art in remembrance of the
lost female subjectivity absent from a history written by men.
Olowska regards Szapocznikow as the first female artist to truly
address female subjectivity and the physical experience of her own body.
Feminist or not, the artists in Radical Women
explored female subjectivity and subverted patriarchal ideology and culturally and biologically determined roles of women in society.
What we forget is that just as Chicago and Miriam Schapiro (co-founders of the Cal Arts Feminist Art Program) opened Womenhouse, a 1972 site - specific work in a Los Angeles house, artists like Betye Saar and Senga Nengudi were also engaging in discussions of
black female subjectivity and oppression.
Investigating female subjectivity and ethnography, Leigh draws on her training in American ceramics, interest in ancient African pottery and dual degrees in art and philosophy.
Jane Campion is a rarity, not simply because she is a world - class female director, but because she has devoted her career to exploring
female subjectivity: all of her feature films and most of her early short films are constructed around female exper...
Her female subjectivity will hopefully inspire a female gaze in younger players who are just starting to acquire the tools that will help them undermine the dominant male gaze.
Martha Wilson (Fellow in Performance / Multidisciplinary «01) is a pioneering feminist artist and art space director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore
her female subjectivity.
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and art space director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore
her female subjectivity.
This discourse by women artists and philosophers addressing issues of
female subjectivity and ownership of sexual imagery for their own desire and pleasure continues to be challenged and explored today by women in art and popular culture.
Simone Leigh is a New York — based artist and curator exploring issues surrounding Black
female subjectivity.
There have since been 25 dinners that have explored themes like Baltimore, Race, and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray); the 2016 shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces; Black
Female Subjectivity; Black Male Subjectivity; and Racial Subjugation in Latin American History.
But there's no real home - place for black
female subjectivity as represented in painting.
Working in ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) examines the construction of black
female subjectivity and economies of preservation and exchange.
Working across ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh examines the construction of black
female subjectivity and economies of self - preservation and exchange.
For her first solo show in a public gallery, Van Meel presents a multi-channel installation exploring language and
female subjectivity, through a soundtrack of two female narrators combined with alternating projections of digital imagery.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Leigh works in ceramics, performance, and installation to investigate what she refers to as «black
female subjectivities.»
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director who, over the past four decades, created innovative photographic and video works that explore
her female subjectivity.
One of their key concerns is to make visible the work of black women artists and black
female subjectivities, to counteract forces that seek to make them and their community invisible or unseen.
The exhibition seeks to explore the possibility of different, critical engagements with geography through the lens of black
female subjectivities and feminisms.
Lorraine O'Grady (b. 1934) is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black
female subjectivity.
Through live and mediated works, Clark Beaumont investigate ideas around identity,
female subjectivity, intimacy and interpersonal relationships.
Wilson, an artist and gallery director, creates work that explore
her female subjectivity through role - playing and costume transformations.
ICA Announces Group Exhibition by Four Intergenerational Women Artists Exploring Issues of Geography, the Environment, and Black Female Subjectivities
The underlying concept running throughout her work is one of female desire and
female subjectivity.
The New York — based artist describes her practice as an object - based ongoing exploration of black
female subjectivity.
Lynn Hershman Leeson has been making pioneering work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology,
female subjectivity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression.
Lorraine O'Grady presentation of Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black
Female Subjectivity as part of the Future Feminism show at The Hole in New York reviewed by Katie Cercone in Posture.
Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black
female subjectivity.
Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black
female subjectivity and women's work, her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self - making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions.
Simone Leigh's practice focuses on an exploration of black
female subjectivity, informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance.
Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and
female subjectivity; her Biennial work is an installation of photographs and photo - collage that deals with issues of appropriation and cultural identity.
In 2000 an experimental video The Fancy, by Elisabeth Subrin, examined Woodman's life and work, «pos [ing] questions about biographical form, history and fantasy,
female subjectivity, and issues of authorship and intellectual property.»
Working in a range of mediums from sculpture and installation to video and performance, Leigh's investigations of
female subjectivity and ethnography, are informed by her training in American ceramics and interest in ancient African pottery.
Simone Leigh's practice is an object - based ongoing exploration of black
female subjectivity.
The result is a surreal counter-narrative to American history that re-centers black
female subjectivity.
The exhibition which, «explores the connection between self and other, and self and environment in relation to
female subjectivity,» is her first with Tiwani Contemporary in London and marks as Chihota says, «an important phase in my career.»
While the body appears in a literal sense in Antoni's works, most notably as a vehicle for creation, Leigh contemplates its representation through investigations into black
female subjectivity and constructed archetypes.
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