Desire Change
Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2017
329 pages
978-0-7735-5077-3 (ISBN)
Description
Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, examining works that respond to themes of diversity and desire. Historians, artists, and curators cover a range of artistic practices including performance, installation, video, and photography.
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Heather Davis is assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School.Heather Davis is assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School.
Heather Davis is assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School.Heather Davis is assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School.
Content
- Cover
- DESIRE CHANGE
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 A Past as Rich as Our Futures Allow: A Genealogy of Feminist Art in Canada
- Desire: Intersections of Sexuality, Gender, Race
- 2 "They Aren't a Boy or a Girl, They Are Mysterious": Finding Possible Futures in Loving Animals and Aliens
- 3 Fashioning Race, Gender, and Desire: Cheryl Sim's Fitting Room and Mary Sui Yee Wong's Yellow Apparel
- 4 Queering Abjection: A Lesbian, Feminist, and Canadian Perspective
- 5 The Appearance of Desire
- Desiring Change: Decolonization
- 6 Resistance as Resilience in the Work of Rebecca Belmore
- 7 Desirous Kinds of Indigenous Futurity: On the Possibilities of Memorialization
- beyond nationhood: a collaborative text
- 8 "All That Is Canadian": Identity and Belonging in the Video and Performance Artwork of Camille Turner
- 9 Mother Me
- Forms of Desire: Institutional Critique and Feminist Praxis
- 10 Vancouver 1989: KATHLEEN RITTER in conversation with Lorna Brown, Allyson Clay, Marian Penner Bancroft, Kathy Slade, Jin-me Yoon, and Anne Ramsden
- 11 From Mentorship to Collaboration: Art, Feminism, and Community in Winnipeg
- 12 How to Review Art as a Feminist and Other Speculative Intents
- 13 How Not to Install Indigenous Art as a Feminist
- 14 A Speculative Manifesto for the Feminist Art Fair International: An Interview with Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue of the Feminist Art Gallery
- Appendix There Is No Feminism (A Love Letter) Or, A Working Chronology of Feminist Art Infrastructures in Canada
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Index
