Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ finds freedom in fantasy
Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ begins in a room decorated to look like a mid-20th century foyer in China: the kind you…
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The Talking Cinema of Barbara Hammer (1939 – 2019)
“I’ve never shown ten of my films in chronological order before. I’m going to be sitting there with you and…
Red, White, Yellow, Black: A Multiracial Feminist Video Collective, 1972-73
On two nights – one in December 1972, the other April 1973 – the multiracial, multimedia feminist art collective Red,…
Hito Steyerl’s Grey Zone
It’s said that Theodor Adorno asked to have the walls of his lecture hall painted a certain shade of grey….
The Queer Subjectivity of Charlotte Prodger’s ‘BRIDGIT’
Near the end of her Turner Prize-winning film ‘BRIDGIT’ (2016), Charlotte Prodger remembers reading “things Sandy Stone wrote in 1994…
Selling Sweat: On the Ethics of Renting ‘Extraordinary Bodies’ in Mika Rottenberg’s Videos
Throughout Mika Rottenberg’s career, the artist has – as she puts it – rented the bodies of extraordinary women. By…
The Visible Woman: In Conversation with Penny Slinger
Penny Slinger is a British-born multimedia artist, whose dynamic body of work weaves together elements of eroticism, feminism, spirituality and…
In Defence of the Crazy Cat Lady: Carolee Schneemann’s Feline Muses
I came across Carolee Schneemann’s Infinity Kisses earlier this year during an insomniac’s trawl through YouTube, ten years after the…
“Deconstruct, reconstruct, challenge, celebrate”: In Conversation With Barbara Hammer
Another Gaze: Do you remember a moment when you decided to start making films? Barbara Hammer: I was studying painting…
Intimate Contact: Images of Suffering in the Work of Carolee Schneemann
“I live for the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann”.1 These words, written in a recent Facebook post by Lena…
In Search of a ‘Feminist Sensibility’: Two Shorts By Deborah Stratman and Lynne Sachs
Vever (for Barbara) dir. Deborah Stratman, 2019 Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor dir. Lynne Sachs, 2018. When the Bay Area lesbian…
Review: Notes to Self by Christina Battle – part of Forum Expanded, Berlinale
“MY ALGORITHMS ARE ALL FUCKED UP” I watch the words of this phrase – printed in an all-caps, blue serif font – slowly vanish…
In Conversation With Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. In the ’60s…
A Backwards Trajectory through Camille Henrot’s ‘Days are Dogs’
A pulsing flower, a botox injection, a watery baptism: through this collection of images, Camille Henrot’s Saturday (2017) explores the…