
On 8 March we wish all women a Happy New Year full of equality and solidarity and remember all those who have fought for feminist ideals throughout time.
Today, as part of the #booksonthedancefloor series, we present a selection made by our colleague Corina Cimpoieru – 8 exemplary books about women and their artistic practices, from different times and places. The books are part of ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, whose program and rules you can find HERE.
๐. ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ. ๐๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐, ๐๐๐ง๐๐, ๐๐๐ซ, ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ., Adrien Sina , les presses du reel, 2011
A re-examination of the role of the female avant-garde in performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 colour illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, the Russian ballet, German and American Expressionism (original photographs, handwritten letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
๐. ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐. ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ , Sternberg Press, 2021
What happens when feminist and queer ethics of care are put into curatorial practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relationship, interdependence, reciprocity and responsiveness informs curatorial practice? Presented through critical theoretical essays, practice-based case studies and manifestos, the essays in this book offer perspectives from diverse contexts and geographies.
๐. ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ญ. ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, Katy Deepwell (ed.), Valiz, 2020
Feminist art activism and feminist art activism, two sides of the same coin, occur when art approaches, develops or transforms into activism and vice versa, when activisms become activisms. In both, art appears in different forms of political intervention, both at the individual, communal or collective level, evidenced in actions, events, identifications and practices. This volume reveals the diversity of these practices and realities.
๐. ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ – ๐๐๐๐๐๐, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2012
In a revolutionary way, starting in 1968, Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT paved the way for feminist and socially critical art. This catalogue contains numerous reproductions from the artist’s archive and also documents VALIE EXPORT’s approach and engagement with a theme. Works such as TAPP und TASTKINO and Aktionshose: Genitalpanik are presented not only as stand-alone works, but also in the context of reference material in the archive.
๐. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐: ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ, Iman Mersal, Sternberg Press, 2018
Egyptian poet Iman Mersal presents a new narrative of motherhood in this book, moving from interior and exterior spaces, journals, readings, and photographic representations of motherhood to question old and current representations of motherhood and the related space of unconditional love, guilt, personal goals, and traditional expectations.
๐. ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ญฬฆ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข. ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, 2019
This volume brings together 36 women artists from behind the Iron Curtain who worked between 1961 and 1989, attempting a contextualization of nonconformist female artistic production in the Eastern Bloc. Exploring how these women artists produced work in terms of mythology, protest and self-definition, Medea’s Insurrection rewrites the male-dominated narrative of post-war European art.
๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ง-๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐, Judith Butler, Verso, 2021
Judith Butler’s book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be linked to a broader political struggle for social equality. Moreover, she argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice emanating from a calm region of the soul or as an individualistic ethical relationship to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical stance that lies in the middle of the political field.
๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฬ๐ฬ๐๐๐๐ฬ, Futura Books, 2017
Anna Dauฤรญkovรก’s book is an incomplete attempt to summarize the most important themes in the work of the first Czechoslovak feminist and queer artist. Emigration and residence in 1980s Russia, determination through non-normative sexuality to the position of “other” and desire in relation to the visualization of sensual experience, the connection between past and presence, all intertwine in the theme of the body politic.