Wednesday 09.07.2014

new volume of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal

Volume 34 (Lessons from History) of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal explores the work of contemporary women artists.

Founded in 1998, n.paradoxa (ISSN: 1461-0434) publishes scholarly and critical articles written by women critics, art historians and artists which extend feminist art, theory, criticism and history on and about the work of contemporary women artists post-1970 (visual arts only) working anywhere in the world.

This 96 page print volume contains work by authors or about artists from Spain, Australia, Russia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Austria, Taiwan, India/Thailand, Philippines, USA, UK.

Contents:
Editorial by Katy Deepwell – Read it here

Zoe Bray 'Interviews with Two Basque Artists: Ana Laura Aláez and Azucena Vieites'
considers how the politics of developing as artists in the Basque region of Spain, in relation to Basque separatism and La Movida impacted upon their cultural production and activism.

Marina Grzinic and Aneta Stojnic on 'Transfeminists and transmigrants perspectives in Europe'
This article explores the concept of transfeminism in relation to the works of Teorija koja hoda (Walking Theory) and Per Art; Gin Muller and Verein zur Forderung der Bewegungsfreiheit (Association to Promote Freedom of Movement); Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid's videos; Marissa Lobo; Tanja Ostojic; and Annalisa Cannito.

Helen McDonald 'Fling ups and Girly Bits: Feminist art and the labiaplasty 'epidemic''
Considers the sexual politics of representations of vulvas/female genitals in relation to both surgery and feminist art in the works of Casey Jenkins, Melanie Bonajo, Hannah Raisin, Patricia Piccinini and Sally Smart.

Joana Monbaron on 'Private Yearnings for the Exotic Tearing off the (Post-)Soviet Wallpaper: Taus Makhacheva and Maria Kapejeva'
Questions the multiplicity of meanings attached to Soviet wallpaper and cults of domesticity in the 'anti-nostalgic' re-presentation of this motif by two women artists.

Swapnaa Tamhane 'Rummana Hussain: Building Necessary Histories'
Analyses from the curator's perspective the politics of feminist recovery of a woman artist in the exhibition, In Order to Join (Museum Abteilung, Monchengladbach, 2013-2014).

Natalie Seiz on 'Generations, re-entry, transnationality: approaches to contemporary women's art history in Taiwan: Hung Yi-Chen and Tsai Charwei'
A fragment of a major study on four generations of women artists, this article focuses on how two Taiwanese women artists educated abroad, seek to establish their exhibition careers at home and abroad.

Anne Shea on 'Jenny Polak: Exposing/Hiding Citizen/Non-Citizen'
Jenny Polak's architectural installations question and challenge the viewer to adopt the position of the contemporary migrant, bringing to the fore echoes of major historical struggles, migration patterns and forms of resistance to state control.

Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez - 'Taking it on Faith: Inscribing the Un(der)written in the work of Varsha Nair and Raquel de Loyola'
With these two contrasting examples, the author unpicks two diverse approaches to religious prescription in The Laws of Manu (India) and the containment of the babaylan (a female pre-colonial priestess/ shaman) (The Philippines).

Harriet Curtis on 'Restaging Feminism in Los Angeles: Suzanne Lacy's Three Weeks in January (2012): Three Weeks in May (1977)'
A critique of the historical differences between two works by the same artist presented on two different occasions and in two different forms over 25 years apart. The article explores how Lacy's strategies of new genre public art work have developed to protest against the rape of women in this city and the media (and more recently social media) reaction to these works.

Katy Deepwell 'Felicity Sparrow: on forming 'Circles: Women's Work in Distribution''
An interview exploring the history behind the formation of 'Circles' in 1979 which promoted women's work in film, video and performance in Britain, with one of its founders.

Plus
Artist's Pages, where artists display their projects
Pam Skelton – 'CONSPIRACY DWELLINGS' – a visual arts project exploring the legacy of state surveillance in Erfurt, East Germany.

This volume is financially supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.

n.paradoxa is published twice a year (January and July).
Its content is available in print and electronic form. Both print and electronic subscriptions are available.

Future volumes: War (Jan 2015) and Humour (July 2015).

KT press are the publishers of n.paradoxa and also produce a series of ebooks for ipad, Kindle, PC/MAC in epub format on the work of contemporary women artists.