Feminist Body Art

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Feminist Body Art
Hannah Wilke, Marxism and Art Beware of Fascist
Feminism, 1974-77
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Carolee Schneeman, (left) Eye Body 36
Transformative Actions 1963, paint, glue, fur,
feathers, garden snakes, glass, plastic with the
studio installation "Big Boards."
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Carolee Schneeman, Meat Joy 1964 Judson Church,
NYC. Group performance raw fish, chickens,
sausages, wet paint, plastic, rope, shredded
scrap paper (right) Interior Scroll, 1975
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Yoko Ono (Japan, b. 1933) Cut Piece, performance,
1964 (Japan) and (right)1965 (NYC,Carnegie Hall)
http//www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dsvy_yoko-ono-
cut-piece_shortfilms
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Shigeko Kubota (American b. Japan, 1937) Vagina
Painting,performance, July 4th, 1965, New York
City, Perpetual Fluxus Festival (paint brush
attached to crotch of underpants)
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Ana Mendieta (b Havana, 1948 d New York,1985),
Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972compare
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1946
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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Death of a Chicken), 1972
compare Hermann Nitsch, Viennese Actionism,
First Action, 1962
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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (People Looking at
Blood), 1973
Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII, 1966
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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Body Tracks), 1975
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"I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been
cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I
re-establish the bonds that unite me to the
universe." - Mendieta
Mendieta, Untitled (Blood Feathers), 1974
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Mendieta, (left) Maroya (Moon), 1982 / (right)
Untitled (Silueta Series, Iowa), 1979
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Mendieta, Silueta, 1979
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Hannah Wilke, Starification Object Series, 1975,
chewing gum objects on artists body, done as
performance with gum chewed by audience and as
performative self-portraits with Les Wollan (male
photographer) one of 35 black and white
photographs in the Mastication Box, a game box
with photographs, chewing gum sculptures, playing
cards, instructions for play
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Hannah Wilke, Starification Object Series, 1975
Pretty woman, femme fatale trickster seduction
and repulsion
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Hannah Wilke, Starification Object Series,
chewing gum collage,1975, 33x26, Post-minimal,
conceptual, erotic humor
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Hannah Wilke, So Help Me Hannah What Does This
Represent / What Do You Represent, 1978.
Performance photograph by Donald Goddard, husband
François Boucher, Leda and the Swan, c. 1740, Oil
on canvas
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Hannah Wilke, February 19, 1992, 6 Intra-Venus
Series, photographs taken in collaboration with
the artists husband, Donald Goddard, documenting
the deterioration of her body from fatal lymphoma
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Judy Chicago (US. B. 1939), The Dinner Party,
1974 to 1979, collaborative mixed media (ceramic,
porcelain, textile) installation depicting (life
size) place settings for 39 famous women
(mythical and historical). Brooklyn Museum, New
York, USA.
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http//www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/
home.php
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party (Sojourner Truth
place setting),197479, mixed media ceramic,
porcelain, textile. Brooklyn Museum
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Mary Kelly (US b.1941), Postpartum Document,
1973-79. (left) A 1999 installation drawings,
graphs and charts, objects and sound recordings.
Post-Partum Document, Documentation IV
transitional objects, diary and diagram, 1976.
(Post Minimal, Post Conceptual) Feminist
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Marina Abramovic (b. 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia),
grandmother of performance art (top left)
photograph of Rhythm O, performance ,1977.
Compare Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, performance, 1964.
(below) Abramovic, Art Must Be Beautiful, 1975, 4
video stills
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vzOuzzzltSOA
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Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen), (left)
Rest Energy, video with audio of heart beats,
1980 (right) Imponderabilia, performance at
museum entrance, 1978
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Abramovic, Balkan Baroque, 1997, Venice Biennale,
Golden Lion Award

• "I'm only interested in an art which can change
  the ideology of society...Art which is only
  committed to aesthetic values in incomplete...I
  don't defend anyone, neither the Serbs nor the
  Bosnians nor the Croats...I'm trying to deal with
  my own emotions, for example with this tremendous
  feeling of shame which I have about this war. As
  an artist, you can only deal with what there is
  inside you. I'm making this play because it is
  the only way to react emotionally to the war."

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Marina Abramovic The Artist Is PresentMarch
14May 31, 2010Museum of Modern Art, New
Yorkhttp//www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibition
s/965 http//www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/vi
deos/96/577
(left) Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a
Dead Hare, 1965, Dusseldorf (right) Marina
Abramovic, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead
Hare, 2005, Guggenheim Museum
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Sanja Ivekovic (Croatian, b. 1949), Make Up-Make
Down, 1978 video
Read review of Ivekovics 2011-2012 show at NYC
MoMA on course website under Readings
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Sanja Ivekovic, Lady Rosa of Luxembourg, 2001,
2011-12 exhibition view,Museum of Modern Art
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Sanja Ivekovic's "Women's House (Sunglasses),"
from 2004
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Sanja Ivekovic's "Women's House (Sunglasses),"
from 2004. NYC MoMA 12/30/2011
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http//video.nytimes.com/video/2011/12/22/arts/des
ign/100000001234811/sanja-ivekovics-personal-cuts-
1982.html
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Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993, Installation
view at Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London. The
artist soaked her hair in hair dye and mopped the
floor with it.

• I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason Im
  so interested in taking my body to those extreme
  places is that thats a place where I learn,
  where I feel most in my body. Im really
  interested in the repetition, the discipline, and
  what happens to me psychologically when I put my
  body to that extreme place.
• Janine Antoni

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Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992, Three part
installation. Chocolate 600 lbs. of chocolate
gnawed by the artist lard 600 lbs. of lard
gnawed by the artist display 130 Lipsticks made
with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed
from the lard cube 27 Heart-shaped packages made
from chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate
cube.

• "With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional
  sculpture, about carving. I was also interested
  in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas
  together and decided that rather than describing
  the body, I would use the body, my body, as a
  tool for making art.
• - Janine Antoni

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Janine Antoni, Gnaw, installation
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Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather, 1993, 7 soap and
7 chocolate self-portrait busts, 24 x 16 x 13
inches each
http//www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/clip1.html