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Politics in a Glass Case Angela Dimitrakaki (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom))

Politics in a Glass Case By Angela Dimitrakaki (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom))

Summary

Brings together curators, artists and historians to rethink sexual politics as realised in exhibits, offering an alternative narrative of feminisms impact on art.

Politics in a Glass Case Summary

Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions by Angela Dimitrakaki (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom))

What happens to art when feminism grips the curatorial imagination? How do sexual politics become realised as exhibits? Is the struggle against gender discrimination compatible with the aspirations of museums led by market values? Beginning with the feminist critique of the art exhibition in the 1970s and concluding with reflections on intersectional curating and globalisation after 2000, this pioneering collection offers an alternative narrative of feminisms impact on art. The essays provide rigorous accounts of developments in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe as well as the UK and US, framed by an introduction which offers a politically engaging navigation of historical and current positions. Delivered through essays, memoirs and interviews, discussion highlights include the Tate Modern hang, relational aesthetics, the global exhibition, feminism and technology in the museum, the rise of curatorial collectivism, and insights into major exhibitions such as Gender Check on Eastern Europe. Bringing together two generations of curators, artists and historians to rethink distinct and unresolved moments in the feminist re-modelling of art contexts, this volume dares to ask: is there a history of feminist art or one of feminist presentations of artworks? Contributors include Deborah Cherry, Jo Anna Isaak, Malin Hedlin Hayden, Lubaina Himid, Amelia Jones, Kati Kivimaa, Alexandra Kokoli, Kuratorisk Aktion, Suzana Milevska, Suzanne Lacy, Lucy Lippard, Sue Malvern, Nancy Proctor, Bojana Pejic, Helena Reckitt, Jessica Sjoholm Skrubbe, Jeannine Tang and Catherine Wood.

About Angela Dimitrakaki (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom))

Angela Dimitrakaki is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Lara Perry is Principal Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton.

Table of Contents

  • 1. How to Be Seen: An Introduction to Feminist Politics, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions
  • Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry
  • PART I. Feminism in the Art Institution
  • 2. Sexual Politics: Art Style
  • (Introduction to the 1978 Hayward Annual Exhibition Catalogue)
  • Lucy Lippard
  • 3. A Great Time to Be A Woman? Feminism and Womens Art at Tate Modern
  • Lara Perry
  • 4. Feminism, Participation and Matrixial Encounters: Towards a Radical, Sustainable Museum (Practice)
  • Nancy Proctor
  • 5. A Serious Suggestion: Give Up the Goat. Art Collections and Feminist Critique in Sweden
  • Jessica Sjoholm Skrubbe and Malin Hedlin Hayden
  • 6. Exhibiting Black Women's Art in the 1980s
  • Lubaina Himid
  • PART II. Exhibitions and Counter-Practices
  • 7. The Lessons of Sexual Politics: From the 1970s to Empire. An interview with Amelia Jones
  • Angela Dimitrakaki
  • 8. Rethinking Inside the Visible
  • Sue Malvern
  • 9. Art as Life, Art as Politics, Art as Political Action. An Interview with Suzanne Lacy
  • Catherine Wood
  • 10. Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics
  • Helena Reckitt
  • 11. Insights from Italy: Pleasure, Plurality, and Shaping the Present
  • Jo Anna Isaak
  • 12. Gender Check, Feminism and Curating in Eastern Europe: An Interview with Bojana Pejic
  • Katrin Kivimaa
  • PART III. Curating the Other/Curating as Other
  • 13. The Woman Artist as Curatorial Effect
  • Alexandra M. Kokoli
  • 14. With her Fingers on the Political Pulse: The Transnational Curating of Maud Sulter
  • Deborah Cherry
  • 15. Archiving/An-archiving Gender Difference, or the 'Silkworm Cocoon' of Feminist Curatorial Research and Practices in the Balkans
  • Suzana Milevska
  • 16. The Problem of Equality, or Translating 'Woman' in the Age of Global Exhibition
  • Jeannine Tang
  • 17. Curatorial Collectives and Feminist Politics in 21st-Century Europe An interview with Kuratorisk Aktion
  • Angela Dimitrakaki
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional information

GOR008690759
9781781381700
1781381704
Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions by Angela Dimitrakaki (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom))
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Liverpool University Press
2015-09-14
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