Arresting Rape Culture – Projects – Performance
Image: Guerrilla Girls [no title] 1985-90, screenprint on paper
Related Readings
G. Roger Denson (2013). From Victim to Victor: Women Turn the Representation of Rape Inside Out.
Samantha Henman. (2013). Reading Marina Abramović Performance Art as a Feminist Act.
Judith Tannenbaum (2007). Performing Women, Then and Now. Moore Women Artists.
Amy Tannenbaum. (2010). Performing Resistance to Sexual Violence: Suzanne Lacy’s The Violence Series.
Amy Littlefield. (2010). Juárez's Dead Girls: De-romanticizing feminicidio in Caridad Svich's Iphigenia.
Jayne Wark. (2006). Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press.
Video: Pussy Riot, Straight Outta Vagina (feat. Desi Mo & Leikeli47), 2016.
Work
Marina Abramović
Image: Marina Abramovic, Rest Energy with Ulay, 1980.
Vanessa Beecroft
VB35, performance/spectacle, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1998.http://www.artnet.com/artists/vanessa-beecroft/vb-35-show-performance-kzYGDZGLTu2b6stHfNBqbQ2
Rebecca Belmore
Rebecca Belmore is an inter-disciplinary Anishinaabe-Canadian artist who is particularly notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. Belmore currently lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Untitled Performance with Jim Newton
About the work: http://redwiremagazine.com/site/redwire/archives/what-is-rebecca-belmore-worth/
“The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. Over 55 people have been members over the years, some for weeks, some for decades. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. We believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders.”
Suzanne Lacy
Ablutions, 1972 (Performance art conceived with Judy Chicago, and performed with Jan Lester, Sandra Orgel, and Aviva Rahmani at the Cal Arts Feminist Art Program, Venice, CA.
Yoko Ono
Cut Piece, 1965
Cindy Sherman
Art21 Exclusive
Episode #139: Cindy Sherman reveals how dressing up in character began as a kind of performance and evolved into her earliest photographic series such as "Bus Riders" (1976), "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980), and the untitled rear screen projections (1980).
Image: Untitled, 1978, Film Still #21
Martine Syms, The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto
More about the artist at http://superselected.com/performance-artist-martine-syms-examines-depictions-of-black-women-through-a-lens-of-media-pop-culture-and-history/
Emma Sulkowicz
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight). “Emma Sulkowicz carried a mattress across the stage as she graduated from Columbia University”
Interview: http://bust.com/arts/18427-emma-sulkowicz-interview.html
February 14th Annual Women’s Memorial March: Their Spirits Live Within Us.
“The February 14th Annual Women’s Memorial March is held on Valentine’s Day to honour the memory of all women from the Downtown Eastside who have died due to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual violence. Now in its 27th year, the march brings courage and commitment to end the violence that vulnerable women in the Downtown Eastside face on a daily basis.”
Public Protest and Performance Arts: Acts of Dissent
Related Reading
Elena Martinique. Protest Art: From Picasso to Pussy Riot to Banksy. Wide Walls.
EliAnpur. Protest Signs As Works of Art. Wide Walls.
