n.paradoxa feminist art salon

n.paradoxa is starting a regular monthly salon in London
(venue is near Waterloo)

First dates: 16 May, 13 June, 18 July 2013

6.00-9.00 pm
£5 entry fee
Please register to attend (details below)
Location will be revealed in n.paradoxa’s reply email.

The salon is a networking and exchange event for women artists, writers, critics and curators who readily identify themselves with feminist art practices and would like to discuss feminist ideas, recent and/or future opportunities and art projects.
This event is a forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet.
The editor of n.paradoxa, Katy Deepwell, will be there as well as contributors to the journal.

The salon is an opportunity for each woman to share information about recent and future art projects with other women in a friendly and intimate setting.
Please bring well-prepared materials (i.e. new publications, printouts of project outlines, leaflets or flyers, photos, a project on a CD or flashdrive with images and brief videoclips). You can also bring a laptop/tablet to display material. Limited internet access is available.

N.B. This event is not a talk or seminar, nor is it a space for formal presentations.
This is not an event for (undergraduate) students, for “crits” or portfolio reviews.

Everyone attending will be encouraged to talk informally to as many people as possible during the event to find common interests, new and old acquaintances and future contacts.
If you are passing through London for business or pleasure on any of these dates or would like to attend just one event, please contact us. You would be most welcome.

Email ktpress@ktpress.co.uk to register (for specific dates or the series)
or use our online contact form to send your message
and we will email you with further details of where the salon will be held.

Please email which date you would like to attend and
just 2 lines (i.e. brief information) about who you are
(i.e.your name and whether you are an artist/critic/writer/curator/artworker/scholar/lecturer)
and what you want to present or discuss
(i.e. title of recent or future project/ book/catalogue/ new work/latest exhibition/event).

Art Connect: Women Artists from Africa and its Diasporas

Panel discussion to launch volume 31 of n.paradoxa Africa and Its Diasporas
Tiwani Contemporary, 16 Little Portland Street, London W1W 8BP www.tiwani.co.uk   Thursday 28 March 2013  6:30 – 8:30pm
rsvp: info@tiwani.co.uk

Invited panelists:  Sonia Boyce, artist (UK); Angèle Etoundi Essamba, photographer (Netherlands); Nancy Mteki, photographer (Zimbabwe); Katy Deepwell, art historian and n. paradoxa founder and editor (UK) and Giulia Lamoni, art historian (Portugal)
The panel discussion will be moderated by Christine Eyene, art historian and curator.

Copies of n. paradoxa 31 will be available during the event for purchase.

In her editorial, Bisi Silva (guest editor of volume 31) observes the exponential growth in the visibility of a new generation of women visual artists from Africa. She also highlights that many major artistic initiatives that have flourished on the continent, in the first decade of the new millennium, have all been started or headed by women curators and cultural producers. Yet, in spite of these positive developments, she writes that an in-depth study of individual practices of woman artists is still lacking in the field of African art historiography.

It is from this starting point, that the evening will focus on the breadth and complexity of themes and issues addressed by female practitioners, including the body, sexuality, history, culture, patriarchy and post-colonialism.

Angèle Etoundi Essamba and Giulia Lamoni are contributors to volume 31 of n.paradoxa!
Bisi Silva guest edited volume 31. She is an independent curator and Director of CCA, Lagos as well as a member of n.paradoxa‘s editorial board.

Art Connect at Tiwani Contemporary is supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. This event is presented in collaboration with Making Histories Visible, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and Deveron Arts.

Women in Russian Art: New Prospects for Feminist Practice.

Women in Russian Art: New Prospects for Feminist Practice.
21 February 2013 , EBRD, 1 Exchange Square, London      7pm
Round Table panel  discussion with Rosalind Blakesley (Chair), Katy Deepwell (n.paradoxa editor), Nataliya Kamenetskaya (art historian and curator), Natalia Glukyla (artist), Natalia Budanova (art historian), Julie Solovyeva (curator)
This event is a collaboration between Pushkin House and EBRD.
Organiser: Elena Zaitseva.
Also exhibition opening ‘Contested Frequencies: The Position of a Woman’ (curated by Julie Solovyeva.  Same night, same venue, 17.30-19.30!

Admission is free, but prior registration via EBRDevents@ebrd.com is essential. Please note that all guests are required to bring a picture  ID and may be subject to random bag searches. It’s in the auditorium and meeting places of a major BANK!

More details

volume 31 of n.paradoxa (Jan 2013) Africa and its Diasporas

Volume 31 of n.paradoxa (Jan 2013) Africa and its Diasporas has just been published
This special volume is guest edited by Bisi Silva. Purchase online in print or electronic form from www.ktpress.co.uk

Contents include:-
Giulia Lamoni  ‘African masks, family photographs and open suitcases: Rosana Paulino, Mónica de Miranda and Maimuna Adam’
Julie Crenn ‘Michèle Magéma – Without Echo, there is no Meeting’
Nontobeko Ntombela  ‘Silent Toyi-Toyis in the work of Donna Kukama and Reshma Chhiba’
Monique Kerman ‘Cut to the Chase: The Work of Mary Evans’
Rachida Triki  ‘Contemporary women artists in Tunisia’
Cheryl Thompson ‘Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art:  Why is She Still Smiling?’
Solange Farkas ‘From “ferramentaria” to trance: Symbolism, concept and religiosity in the work of Eneida Sanches’
Peju Layiwola ‘From Footnote to Main Text: Re/Framing Women Artists from Nigeria’
Zehra Jumabhoy ‘Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji’
Artists’ Statements on their recent work from Taiye Idahor, Ato Malinda, Adwoa Admoah, Maimuna Adam and Mary Sibande
Artist’s Pages by Ayana V. Jackson; Pinar Yolacan and Angèle Etounde Essamba, Zanele Muholi

Individual articles available as PDFs for £4.50
Print copies of n.paradoxa cost £9 (posted to UK/Europe)
or £12.50 (posted to USA/Canada/RoW)
Individual print subscriptions cost £18 (2 vols, UK/Europe); or £25 (2 vols, USA/RoW)
Electronic subscription (access by username/password) £15 (2 vols, 12 months access)

Feminist Art Seminars, recordings available to view

Four feminist art seminars, with Katy Deepwell, (organised by ICA/n.paradoxa, Jan-June 2011) are now available to view in the video archive of the ICA. To find them go to: www.ktpress.co.uk, look for the link on the left-hand column “View feminist art seminars”
These video recordings cover the two seminars on feminist aesthetics (tracking debates from the 1970s to the present), one on feminist art manifestos and another called “Eclipsing the Eighties”. In total, they represent 6 hours of discussion and debate on these topics. Enjoy!

two new ebooks from KT press

KT press has just published two new ebooks: Rina Arya’s monograph of Chila Kumari Burman: shakti, sexuality and bindi girls and Fran Cottell’s documentation of her House projects, 2001-2011, from Display to BACK to FRONT. Details on our blog and website. These ebooks are .epubs for ipad: electronic form only.

Rina Arya
Chila Kumari Burman
shakti, sexuality and bindi girls

KT press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9536541-3-0
Available in epub format, c.155 pages, 133+ illus.

A monograph on the artist, Chila Kumari Burman, which looks at her work in terms of her South Asian identity, her contribution to the black arts movement and Stuart Hall’s definitions of “new ethnicities” in contemporary Britain. Rina Arya examines a wide range of works made by the artist from the mid-1980s but focuses on her Ice-Cream series of works (2006-2008) and her Bindi Girls series.
Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at Wolverhampton University.

This book is also available on Amazon Kindle from Amazon. You can also view the first few pages of this book on their website.

Fran Cottell
House
from Display to Back to Front

KT press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9536541-4-7
Available in epub format, c. 60 pages, 100+ illust., 4 videos.

An overview of a series of installations made in the artists’ home in Greenwich, 2001-2012, supported by Café Gallery Projects. Each section of the book documents a different project. Each section is introduced by the artist. An introductory essay by Katy Deepwell is included. This epub contains extensive photo-documentation of each of the projects and video clips.

Fran Cottell is a Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College, CCW, University of the Arts London.

The DOWNLOAD OF this .epub is 93MB as it contains video and images. It was designed for ipad but it can be viewed on Kindle and other ereaders including those on computers. However, it may not be possible to view all the video clips on all these e-readers. A second version (smaller file size) using external links to the videos will be available shortly.

Epub format for ipad, ibooks, Amazon Kindle. £4.50.
Available online at www.ktpress.co.uk/ebooks.asp now.
This project is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, New York
KT press is the publisher of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal.

Already published in the series:
Patricia Karetzky
Femininity in Asian Women Artists’ Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits
KT press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9536541-2-3 c. 46 pages, 40 + illus.

These ebooks are available as a DRM-free .epub (a download file).They work best on an i-pad but can be read on an iphone or other devices using ibooks. They can be downloaded onto a PC or MAC and read through different colour .epub readers, e.g. Mozilla Firefox’s free epub reader/Sony e-reader/Nook for PC. These epubs can be converted to a .mobi file (for Kindle or Kindle on PC) without problems using Kindle Fire and several can also be purchased and ‘previewed’ on Amazon’s Kindle shop.

nparadoxa – pop up shop

n.paradoxa will be part of the POP-UP festive fair on Thursday 6 Dec,  12-9pm
at 1 Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA.
Come and find us and buy a gift subscription for a friend! You can also do this online!
This event is a one-day pop-up shop for art books, zines, prints, works on paper, paintings and small 3d works from independent galleries – Christmas Gifts.
Festive food & mulled wine by Shutterbug Café. Evening DJ sets including Barby Asante and her South London Black Music Archive set and J.M. in the air.
Rivington Place | London EC2A 3BA, Telephone: +44 (0)20 7749 1240
info@rivingtonplace.org     http://www.rivingtonplace.org