Women Artists

blackcontemporaryart:

Kelly Nipper, Weather Center, 2010

performed by Taisha Paggett

(Source: wigmanwigman)

adailyriot:

Opposite: Untitled (I Tan), Chicago 2006 by Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Inupiaq)

In cultures throughout the world, there is a very human need to mark one’s existence in history, to leave traces of one’s life work, clues that may unravel the story of that person, his or her culture or situation. Alaska, throughout history, has been a crossroads of cultures and populations -human, animal, and spiritual. I am both Alaska Native and settler, bloodlines that may at first seem opposite, but in some way came together in my family. The lineage that i was born into and the land I was removed from create a precarious balancing of cultures and I think it is these origins that have molded my identity. In my work, I try to explore worlds in which translation is suspended -the space beyond singular identities -where worlds collide, merge, or resist each other. Understanding that I move through multiple identities and languages int he context of my individual and cultural framework, I want to create a dialogue with others who also have to traverse cultural divisions and boarders. Using Indigenous and post-colonial theologies, integrated with personal experiences, I investigate the history that is shared by many marginalized communities. I want to raise questions as well as declare convictions -challenge, deconstruct, and influence a new way of thinking about contemporary Native people, our life, and our art. In order for cultural, our life, and our art. In order for cultural survival, we must review our visual philosophy, deconstructing the imposed images as well as our own colonized minds. Through this, the multiplicity of self will evolve along with our expanded notions of what is authentic, traditional, or real. The words that exist within me -such as Woman, Native, Artist, Other -continue to separate and merge again, coming together in a voice that seems to be growing louder every day. I ope to merge the knowledge of my communities  with the individual experience to create stories that grow and shift along with the words within and around. Through my art, I want to create a dialogue that wil help to redefine our selves, our communities, and our beliefs.

(Source: rematiration)

shinyslingback:

Emelan

Durational Performance 2009

Performed at (from top) Philips de Pury, Art Dubai 2009 & Beverly Knowles Fine Art 2008

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.



WB Yeats: Cloths of Heaven



A dreaming dress  that articulates the inner emotions of a sleeping performer. A skirt, enlarged to gigantic proportions, fills and overflows the space into the surrounding area.


burnthisandmemorizeyourself:

Calling Cards

Adrian Piper

The artist created these calling cards that she distributed at random in instances when she felt marginalized due to her mixed race or her sex. 

Alex Bag
Untitled “Fall ‘95” [London Punk Girls]

(Source: youtube.com)

Experimental musician Audrey Chen

(Source: youtube.com)

Alicia Framis
Lost Astronaut, 2009
Performance at the PERFORMA 09 in New York