Geert Lovink on Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:55:14 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> Feminist art (fwd) |
From: Faith Wilding <74447.2452@CompuServe.COM Subject: Feminist art Dear nettime, I just have to say that the article Vagina on the Net demonstrated that the writer has a very superficial and misguided knowledge of feminist art, and very little understanding of the history of feminism in the last 25 years. If Anne de Haan's article was a representative summation of feminist art on the WEB, and generally, then this is very sad. I see the Net as primarily a communications network at present, and I'm pained to see that the communication on feminism and feminist art is at such a low level. I do very much appreciate the work being done by VNS Matrix and a few others. But it seems that there's a serious under-representation of the work being done by feminist cultural creators on Nettime. As a correction I must add that Lucy Lippard did not "found a feminist art institution" in the USA. The feminist art movement ("institution" is the wrong term here entirely) was brought into being by diverse groups all over the USA working collaboratively and networking nationally. Much of this history is contained in the book: The Power of Feminist Art, edited by Broude and Garrard, and published by Abrams. Though the book has many flaws, one can gain a good overview of the development and history of the feminist art movement from it. And let's not forget that feminist art is a mobile category which is now spread throughout the world. And lives! In solidarity, Faith Wilding --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de