WMNST 106Q midterm 1
Suzanne Lacy - ANS-Who: Suzanne Lacy
What: Three Weeks in January(2012), In Mourning and in Rage (1977, steps of City
Hall), Inevitable Associations(1976)
When: 1977
Where: Los Angeles
Why:
-"Influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes" -Suzanne Lacy
-visibility and invisibility
-biological processes
-violence (domestic and sexual)
-interior vs exterior self
-age
Violence: specifically domestic violence, sexual violence, and rape
Our interior vs. exterior selves
Age (aging women)
Health
->the personal is political
Judy Chicago - ANS-Who: Judy Chicago
What: The Dinner Party
When: 1979
Where: Brooklyn Museum
Why:
-California Institute of Arts
Placements look like female genitalia
Multimedia
Likened to pornography
Accused of celebrating biological female identity, but not the sociological aspects
Plate setting
Heritage floor (historical and mythical)
13 Last Supper (Da Vinci) -worthwhile contribution
13-witches covent - role model
Guerilla Girls - ANS-Who: Took dead women artists names
What: Guerrilla Girls
When: 1985
Where: NYC
, Why:
-is a feminist artist group who called themselves "the conscience of the art world"
-"do women have to be naked to get into the met"
Took dead women artists names
Women's representation
Method of attack
Advertisements that named names of artists and institutions (posters)
Called public service announcements
Called out film industry and government
Kept private because they did not want their art involved
Silence their identities, but not their voices
They had to institutionalize to keep up with the times
Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena - ANS-Who: Coco Fusco and Guillermo
Gomez Pena
What: "Two Undiscovered Amerindians", The Other
When: 1992
Where: Toured five countries, including D.C.
Why:
Blurred lines between fantasy and reality (result?)
Space and attention
More creative, less restrictive
Performed role of cultural Other reversing the Gaze
Bringing "savagery" to "civilization"
Satirical comment on Western civilization
Criticized for duping the audience
- Commentary on "otherness"
-projecting sexual fantasy
Racial formation - ANS--Howard Winant and Michael Omi
-tool to structure inequality
-fundamental dimension of human rep
-process where race categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed
-race linked to relationships of power
"the sociohistorical by which" race is created
Structures of power
A term coined by historians/sociolgists Michael Omi and Howard Winant to explain race
as an evolving social construction rather than a static biolgical fact. It explains how
categories of raced are formed, embodied and shift overtime
Suzanne Lacy - ANS-Who: Suzanne Lacy
What: Three Weeks in January(2012), In Mourning and in Rage (1977, steps of City
Hall), Inevitable Associations(1976)
When: 1977
Where: Los Angeles
Why:
-"Influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes" -Suzanne Lacy
-visibility and invisibility
-biological processes
-violence (domestic and sexual)
-interior vs exterior self
-age
Violence: specifically domestic violence, sexual violence, and rape
Our interior vs. exterior selves
Age (aging women)
Health
->the personal is political
Judy Chicago - ANS-Who: Judy Chicago
What: The Dinner Party
When: 1979
Where: Brooklyn Museum
Why:
-California Institute of Arts
Placements look like female genitalia
Multimedia
Likened to pornography
Accused of celebrating biological female identity, but not the sociological aspects
Plate setting
Heritage floor (historical and mythical)
13 Last Supper (Da Vinci) -worthwhile contribution
13-witches covent - role model
Guerilla Girls - ANS-Who: Took dead women artists names
What: Guerrilla Girls
When: 1985
Where: NYC
, Why:
-is a feminist artist group who called themselves "the conscience of the art world"
-"do women have to be naked to get into the met"
Took dead women artists names
Women's representation
Method of attack
Advertisements that named names of artists and institutions (posters)
Called public service announcements
Called out film industry and government
Kept private because they did not want their art involved
Silence their identities, but not their voices
They had to institutionalize to keep up with the times
Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena - ANS-Who: Coco Fusco and Guillermo
Gomez Pena
What: "Two Undiscovered Amerindians", The Other
When: 1992
Where: Toured five countries, including D.C.
Why:
Blurred lines between fantasy and reality (result?)
Space and attention
More creative, less restrictive
Performed role of cultural Other reversing the Gaze
Bringing "savagery" to "civilization"
Satirical comment on Western civilization
Criticized for duping the audience
- Commentary on "otherness"
-projecting sexual fantasy
Racial formation - ANS--Howard Winant and Michael Omi
-tool to structure inequality
-fundamental dimension of human rep
-process where race categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed
-race linked to relationships of power
"the sociohistorical by which" race is created
Structures of power
A term coined by historians/sociolgists Michael Omi and Howard Winant to explain race
as an evolving social construction rather than a static biolgical fact. It explains how
categories of raced are formed, embodied and shift overtime
