The journals of n.paradoxa, are now available at The Women’s Library. The feminist art seminar includes a chance to browse the journals in an open reading session from 11am – 4pm, as well as the chance to see 50 rare exhibition catalogues and books from around the world on feminist art. This will be followed by a talk from the editor, Katy Deepwell from 2pm – 4pm. n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal has published more than 400 articles from women artists, writers, critics and curators from more than 50 countries around the world.

For booking information, please contact The Women’s Library:

The Women’s Library
London Metropolitan University
25 Old Castle Street
London E1 7NT

Tel: 020 7320 2222/ Email: moreinfo@thewomenslibrary.ac.uk

For further information, click here to visit The Women’s Library website.

Ann Huber-Sigwart   ‘Between the Lines: Some thoughts on Sheela Gowda’s works’
Kim Hong-hee  ‘Contemporary Korean Activist and Feminist Art’
Peggy Wang   ‘Subversion, Culture Shock, and “Women’s Art”: An Interview with Lin Tianmiao’
Artists’ Pages: Nalini Malani   ‘In Search of Vanished Blood…’
Artists’ Pages:  Hong-Kai Wang   ‘Music While We Work’
Artists’ Pages: Yong Soon Min   ‘OVERSEAS / at Sea’
Saisha Grayson   ‘Breathing Between the Lines: Re-Deconstruction in Chitra Ganesh’s Tales of Amnesia’
Artists’ Pages: Judy Freya Sibayan  ‘Scapular  Gallery  Nomad : The Wonderful  World  of  a Small Art Gallery Resting on my Shoulders’
Patricia Karetzky ‘Cui Xiuwen’s Recent Work: Spiritual Realms in the Material World ‘
Carla Bianpoen   ‘Indonesian Women Artists make their Mark’
Flaudette May Datuin   ‘Sow and Till: The Revolving Secret Garden (Reflections on a Class Project)’
Shibin Zhang  ‘Xiaoyan Fan: Strength / Weakness’
Salima Hashmi  ‘”Sinful Women”: Women Artists from Pakistan’

For the first time, electronic subscriptions of the print editions are available for individuals and libraries. Readers can purchase individual electronic articles, print volumes or subscriptions for electronic and/or print versions. n.paradoxa has published the work of more than 2oo writers from over 50 countries around the world in its 14 year history.

The new site has many new search facilities including access to over 1000 bibliographic links to feminist art books, exhibition catalogues, anthologies and other magazines and websites on feminist art and contemporary women artists from many countries across the world between 1971 and the present day.

You can still read the old online articles of n.paradoxa’s former online edition from this new site. The new site provides access to over 1000 pages of these freely available articles published between 1996-2010. (If you have bookmarked links to these PDFs, please readjust your bookmarks to the new site as they will no longer work).

Read our new sections: RIP.OFF 2 and our new call for papers for future volumes…..

 n.paradoxa publishes the work of women writers, critics, artists and curators on the work of contemporary women artists from anywhere in the world. If you would like to submit an article on contemporary women’s art practices (visual arts only, working post-1970) or an aspect of feminist art theory, an interview with a woman artist or a feature to n.paradoxa, please contact the editor. Do not send finished articles. Articles are commissioned through negotiation with the editor: Katy Deepwell.  email: katy@ktpress.co.uk

Contents:

Angela Dimitrakaki ‘Labour, Ethics, Sex and Capital: On Biopolitical Production in Contemporary Art’
subRosa ‘Bodies Unlimited:A decade of subRosa’s art practice’
Márcia Oliveira ‘The postmodern paradox in visual arts aestheticism, politics and contemporary materialism’
Jo Anna Isaak ‘Memories, rooms, sound and skin: an interview with Irina Nakhova’
Artists Pages: SILVIA ZIRANEK ‘(WHAT?) FACE FATE’
Women artists at the 54th Venice Biennale
Katy Deepwell ‘From Marginalia to Monalisa: an interview with Ida Applebroog’
Suzana Milevska ‘Woman Bear Witness’
Monica Sjoo and Anne Berg ‘Images on Womanpower– Arts Manifesto (1971)
(trying to give a rough and necessarily incomplete idea of what we are about.)’
Kim Sawchuk  ‘Bio-art and the feminist politics of hands-on knowledge: an interview with Tagny Duff’
Victoria Rance ‘Mary Kelly: Projects,1973-2010′
Kimberly Lamm ‘At the Pivot of the Biopolitical: Seeing Sex and Racism in Lorna Simpson’s You’re Fine’
3 Women: Maria Pininska-Berez, Natalia LL, Ewa Partum

Purchase at http://www.ktpress.co.uk

This volume is financially supported by Flo Art Foundation.

Katy Deepwell leads the discussion, a collaboration between the ICA/n.paradoxa

Wednesday 15 June 2-4 pm    Cinema 2, ICA, The Mall, London.

Tickets £5 from www.ica.org.uk Box Office

Genealogies or cartographies of feminist art
Feminist art practices have a 40 year history. How we speak about this history will define how we understand these practices and feminisms’ contributions to art either in terms of a movement, a radical politics or an ongoing problematic. What frameworks do we routinely use to describe the multiplicity of strategies, the shifts in emphasis over time, the variety of art forms  and the global dimensions of this history and how do these constrain or liberate how we think about feminisms today? This seminar will look at some key examples of these frameworks – generational/geo-political, post-colonial, post-postmodern, third world feminist as well as into new critiques of the glosses/citation practices feminists themselves have used to describe progress, loss and return in the narratives of feminism (defined by Claire Hemmings, 2011).

KT press, publishers of n.paradoxa, are planning a new book series on feminist art theory and the work of contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) – for late 2011 into 2012. This new series could be characterised as a return to the 18^th century tradition of pamphleteering – with a modern digital twist and an ISBN!

It is intended that each book in the series will be an e-book, sold and circulated at low cost as PDFs, from KT press’ website. Each book will contain around 40 pages of text and images. The first series will contain 5-10 books.

KT press holds the view that feminism in relation to the visual arts is a contentious subject but it is also an open question about the relationship between art, aesthetics and politics which needs to be debated, especially with regard to the work of women artists. Authors must specify which feminist ideas they are engaging with and where their views of feminism originate. New perspectives and a critical consideration of the legacy of feminism will be valued in selecting this series.

The aim of the series is to publish books containing:-

a)      collected conference papers or panel discussions on or about feminist art

b)     translations of writings about feminist art from any language into English for the first time (with commentaries).

c)      discussions of a single woman artist’s work by one or several authors including documentation of their projects (where no monograph exists)

d)     collected writings / performance scripts / art notes by a woman artist on art and her practice (Poems will not be considered).

e)      new polemics about feminist-art-theory and feminist art criticism arising from a single author or a discussion between feminists.

f)       essays engaging in future thinking about feminism in the visual arts or written as new manifestos for the future.

g)     extended discussions of curation or exhibitions as forms of feminist reading or praxis or essays written bringing together works to form virtual exhibitions “of our wishes”.

Ideas developed from theses (MA to PhD) will be considered but authors are asked not to send the thesis itself, only a summary of the key arguments and a description of the subject. Women who have not published a book before are encouraged to apply, if they are prepared to develop their ideas in co-operation with the publisher.

Ideas based in post-structuralist approaches to language, psychoanalysis and social critique of art and politics, cyberfeminist thinking, exploring new art forms, feminist post-colonial critiques, feminisms of the North and South/ East and West, approaches to global diasporas in contemporary art, issue-based political thinking about questions of social justice in relation to contemporary art are all welcome.

KT press operates as a not-for-profit company. Fees to authors will be paid as a royalty on copies sold.  Potential authors should write to Katy Deepwell at KT press, sending an outline of their idea for an e-book. katy@ktpress.co.uk

The Feminist Art Seminars are a collaboration between ICA and n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
Led and organised by Katy Deepwell, Editor of n.paradoxa  (www.ktpress.co.uk)

Tickets for these events are £5 and can be booked online at www.ica.org.uk or through the box office Box Office +44 (0)20 7930 3647

Venue: Cinema 2, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Wednesday 4 May 2-4 pm
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics?
What are the pressing questions in thinking about feminist aesthetics today?
Rita Felski argued in 1989 that feminism doesn’t need a singular aesthetic but a plural aesthetics but that it should also move beyond aesthetics. The framing of an agenda in feminist aesthetics has also been criticised as dominated by liberal feminisms (Lisa Ryan Musgrave, 2003). How have feminist debates in the intervening years between these two positions developed around the question of aesthetics in relation to ethics, questions in postmodern aesthetics, and different feminist engagements within (30 years of) post-structuralist thought on the question of aesthetics and politics in new visions of social democracy and political engagement?

This seminar follows on from the first Feminist Art Seminar ‘What is Feminist aesthetics?’ (Jan 2011) where the focus was on feminist aesthetics of the 1970s and 1980s.

Wednesday 18 May 2-4 pm
Eclipsing the Eighties
All too frequently today feminism in the visual arts is constructed as about the legacy of the 1970s and how younger generations of the artists in the 1990s or in the 2000s have dealt with this legacy. What were the dominant debates in feminism in the 1980s as it was absorbed or dissolved in the pluralism of the postmodern art scene and as feminism entered the academy? What were the challenges, often posed through identity politics, around inclusions/exclusions of black women artists, women of colour or lesbian women artists and as post-colonial critiques developed? What happened to those artists with strong feminist art practices who emerged in the 1980s? Mira Schor has called this group: the 2.5 generation, the group between those represented in either WACK! (2007) (art from the 1960s and 1970s) and Global Feminisms (2007) (artists born after 1960). What happened to feminism in the 1980s as women artists entered the mainstream, and as WAC and the Guerrilla Girls emerged as “new” tactics of dissent?

Wednesday 15 June 2-4 pm
Genealogies or cartographies of feminist art
Feminist art practices have a 40 year history. How we speak about this history will define how we understand these practices and feminisms’ contributions to art either in terms of a movement, a radical politics or an ongoing problematic. What frameworks do we routinely use to describe the multiplicity of strategies, the shifts in emphasis over time, the variety of art forms  and the global dimensions of this history and how do these constrain or liberate how we think about feminisms today? This seminar will look at some key examples of these frameworks – generational/geo-political, post-colonial, post-postmodern, third world feminist as well as into new critiques of the glosses/citation practices feminists themselves have used to describe progress, loss and return in the narratives of feminism (defined by Claire Hemmings, 2011).

If you haven’t already seen it: n.paradoxa ‘Guide to Feminist Art, Art history and Criticism’ is now available as a PDF file at http://www.ktpress.co.uk/nparadoxaissue21.pdf .  This document might prove a useful starting point for a discussion with your students or for a very introductory course or class.

30 March 2011, 2-4pm
Manifestos of feminist art
Feminist artists and writers have published a large number of manifestos in the last forty years: on subjects as diverse: women’s art (Valie Export); maintenance art (Mierle Ukeles); carnal art (Orlan) and  cyber-feminism (OBN and VNS Matrix). This seminar is an opportunity to read, discuss and compare different manifestos on women’s art.

In preparation, please look at the list of and links to feminist art manifestos now available at http://www.ktpress.co.uk/feministartmanifestos.htm

All events are free.
To book, email: talks@ica.org.uk
Venue: Cinema 2, ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
tel: +44 (0)20 7930 3647     www.ica.org.uk
The event is free, space is limited so reserve a place at talks@ica.org.uk

23 February 2011, 2-4pm
Feminist art and the blockbuster exhibition
Since 2007, there have been many major feminist shows around the world, this seminar will review some recent feminist exhibitions – from Elles@Centres Pompidou (Paris, 2009-2010); Rebelle: kunst en feminisme 1969-2009 (Arnhem, 2009); Gender Check (MUMOK, 2009) and ask if these open up new directions for thinking about feminism as an international, rather than a national or local phenomenon? How would our definitions of feminism change if we started to pay attention to the substantial histories of feminist art in Russia, in Sweden, across Eastern Europe, in Taiwan, in Thailand, in Canada, in Mexico or in Australia?

Take a look at the list of international exhibitions of feminist art at http://www.ktpress.co.uk

This event is free. To reserve a place, email: talks@ica.org.uk

Although this event is currently fully booked, at the last event people did not show up. This left a few spaces. If you do not have to travel far or are in central London that day, you could take a chance and turn up to see if you can get in.

Venue: Cinema 2, ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
tel: +44 (0)20 7930 3647     www.ica.org.uk

The event is free, space is limited so reserve a place at talks@ica.org.uk