Feminist Art Issues in Intermedia Collins Spring 2014

Feminist CalArts Program Womanhouse (Womanhouse: Bridal Staircase, Nurturant Kitchen, Sheet Closet) Los Angeles, California 1971 installation

Feminist CalArts Program Womanhouse (Menstruation Bathroom) Los Angeles, California 1971 installation

Eleanor Antin Carving: A Traditional Sculpture gelatin-silver photographs and text panel each photograph 7 x 5 in.

Carolee Schneeman Interior Scroll 1975 photographs of performance and scroll text 48 x 72 in.

Carolee Schneeman Interior Scroll 1975 photographs of performance and scroll text 48 x 72 in. I MET A HAPPY MAN A STRUCTURALIST FILMMAKER --BUT DON’T CALL ME THAT IT’S SOMETHING I DO-- HE SAID WE ARE FOND OF YOU YOU ARE CHARMING BUT DON’T ASK US TO LOOK AT YOUR FILMS WE CANNOT THERE ARE CERTAIN FILMS WE CANNOT LOOK AT: THE PERSONAL CLUTTER THE PERSISTENCE OF FEELINGS THE HAND-TOUCH SENSIBILITY THE DIARISTIC INDULGENCE THE PAINTERLY MESS THE DENSE GESTALT THE PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES (I DON’T TAKE THE ADVICE OF MEN WHO ONLY TALK TO THEMSELVES) PAY ATTENTION TO CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL FILM LANGUAGE IT EXISTS FOR AND IN ONLY ONE GENDER HE SAID YOU CAN DO AS I DO TAKE ONE CLEAR PROCESS FOLLOW ITS STRICTEST IMPLICATIONS INTELLECTUALLY ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF PERMUTATIONS ESTABLISH THEIR VISUAL SET I SAID MY FILM IS CONCERNED WITH DIET AND DIGESTION VERY WELL HE SAID THEN WHY THE TRAIN? THE TRAIN IS DEATH AS THERE IS DIE IN DIET AND DI IN DIGESTION

Carolee Schneeman Interior Scroll 1975 photographs of performance and scroll text 48 x 72 in. THEN YOU ARE BACK TO METAPHORS AND MEANINGS MY WORK HAS NO MEANNING BEYOND THE LOGIC OF ITS SYSTEMS I HAVE DONE AWAY WITH EMOTION INTUITION INSPIR- ATION SPONTINEITY -- AGGRAND- IZED HABITS WHICH SET ARTISTS APART FROM ORDINARY PEOPLE - THOSE UNCLEAR TENDENCIES WHICH ARE INFLICTED FOR VIEWERS… IT’S TRUE WHEN I WATCH YOUR FILMS MY MIND WANDERS FREELY DURING THE HALF HOUR OF PULSING DITS I DREAM OF MY LOVER WRITE A GROCERY LIST RUMMAGE THROUGH THE TRUNK FOR A MISSING SWEATER PLAN THE DRAIN- AGE PIPES FOR THE ROOT CELLAR -- IT IS PLEASANT NOT TO BE MANIPULATED HE PROTESTED YOU ARE UNABLE TO APPRECIATE THE SYSTEM THE GRID THE NUMERICAL RATIONAL PROCEDURES --THE PYTHAGOREAN CUES I SAW MY FAILINGS WERE WORTHY OF DISMISSAL I’D BE BURIED ALIVE MY WORKS LOST… HE SAID WE COULD BE FRIENDS EQUALLY THO WE ARE NOT ARTISTS EQUALLY I SAID WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS EQUALLY AND WE CANNOT BE ARTISTS EQUALLY HE TOLD ME HE HAD LIVED WITH A “SCULPTRESS” I ASKED DOES THAT MAKE ME A FILM-MAKERESS? OH NO HE SAID WE THINK OF YOU AS A DANCER

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party various media 48 ft. each side

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party various media 48 ft. each side

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party various media 48 ft. each side

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party various media 48 ft. each side

Judy Chicago The Dinner Party various media 48 ft. each side

Miriam Schapiro Anatomy of a Kimono (section) 1976 fabric and acrylic on canvas 6 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 6 in.

Ana Mendieta Flowers on Body 1973 earth/body work with flowers, executed at El Yaagul, Oaxaca, Mexico

Barbara Kruger Untitled 1981

Barbara Kruger Untitled 1981

Barbara Kruger Untitled 1983 photostat and red painted frame 6 ft. 1 in x 4 ft. 1 in.

Annegret Soltau transgenerativ photo collage with thread 52 x 98.5 cm

Guerrilla Girls

The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist 1988 poster

Cindy Sherman Untitled # gelatin-silver print 8 x 10 in.

Cindy Sherman Untitled # gelatin-silver print 8 x 10 in.

Cindy Sherman Untitled # type-C print 57 x 41 in.

Pussy Riot Guerilla performance Russian Orthodox Church 2012 Pussy Riot members perform their "punk prayer" protest inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21, 2012.

Malena Barnhart Please Tell Me YouTube project

Samantha Aasen Garden Digital print 2014