#feministperformanceart

[kotexfitts]

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@waronwomen performing Divisive Shit off their new album #CaptureTheFlag #punkrock #feminism #feministhardcore #womenwhorock #feministperformanceart (at The Haunt)

[christenclifford]

Thank you so much to @whateverjeanne and @insta_matina and @rootdivision for showing my piece AMERICAN DREAM as part of Reading Room: The Feminist Art of Self Help. This piece is so important to me- and thank you to @projectforemptyspace and @rjampol and @browngirlcurator for first showing it. I had the idea for this piece over ten years ago when I put a proposal together. When I shared the idea with a male curator he rolled his eyes and laughed- his female partner later came over to me and whispered “You should do it.” But his judgement stayed with me as another kind of shame. Even my story wasn’t “good enough.” Even this proof of hypermasculinity. AMERICAN DREAM is my framing of the tape that was given to me at 15. My tape, that I danced to the night I was raped, that I left behind after I ran out, that the friends of the rapist recorded over with mocking and threats. It’s my monologue with their voices. It’s an artifact of my past. I have performed with this tape, but now I have a way to share it where I don’t have to be there- it’s part of my journey from performance to other kinds of storytelling: installation, film, video. I’m scared and delighted to share this work. So if you are in San Francisco or know someone who is, please stop by Root Division Gallery in the Mission and give it a listen. The volume is low, so apparently it was hard to hear at the opening last night. It’s there for three weeks. I would be honored by your attention. #rape #art #feministart #audioinstallation #rapetape #americandream #feministperformanceart #feministperformanceartist #rapeculture #sexualjustice #digitalart #rapeart #audio #selfhelp #readingroom #rootdivisionsf #love

[msvenusofwillendorf]

Reincarnation of Saint-ORLAN (1990)

[karengruberart]

New week, fresh starts, new experiences. This Saturday I’ll be part of a unique performance art piece “Taking Up Space” at @platformgalleryco in Katoomba. The rehearsals and group work leading up to this have been powerful and transformative, I have no doubt the evening will be too. There are limited spaces left and no tickets will be available on the door so if you are open to experiencing something new this weekend head to takingupspacekatoomba.eventbrite.com and use the code QUEENIE to receive a discount 💕 * * * #performanceart #feministperformanceart #feministart #takingupspace #ownyourspace #platformgallery #katoomba #whatsonkatoomba #newexperiences #getoutsideyourcomfortzone https://www.instagram.com/p/B1C-Wntgp_s/?igshid=17t9rv8cfn9f2

[sikegeist]

A little sneak peek of “Pretty//Disgusting”...one of the many games @purdymischief and I like to play. This shot comes from the most recent play sesh/showing of (pretty shiny cage)//Consu(Me) at @safehousearts in San Francisco. STAY TUNED for an excerpt from zee show which imma post online this weekend for yer pleasure, and more purrrfurrrmorance news!!! 💋 💋 💋 #purdymischief #performanceart #liveart #queerart #queertheatre #queerperformance #queerartist #feministperformanceart #feministperformance #performanceprotest #protestpretty #pretty #disgusting #strawberryapocalypse https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2jc3pFlaZ/?igshid=1opjg5h5dd4ii

[brendaoelbaum]

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#audienceparticipation #arttherapy #dearwomanhouse #smashthepatriarchy #ingredients #jollyranchers #stainedglasscookies @theartkettle #manchestermi #wackamole #wackinjustice #feministperformanceart #ibelieveher #notmypresident #bluewave2018 @justicekavanaugh @itsbrettmkavanaugh @judy.chicago @seanhannity @tuckercarlsontonight #werenotviolent #itsjustart @nasty_woman_us @womensmarch #craftivism #softontheoutside #brittleandteethpullingontheinside (at Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo46bsqlmDp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k9y82q1d428n

[1wantyour3lood]

We are in the diginews!  We bleed hard and heavy.

[christenclifford]

Women are getting fired for curatorial decisions. Do our institutions belong to the public or the donors on the board? Museums make only half their budget money from admission fees, the rest comes from donors. Donors are often collectors who have considerable money already invested in the work of white male artists. Women in power try to change the definition of what is valuable. Women in power try to make the work of women worth something. How can we change what art is? What art is valued? Sometimes I think fuck the whole system, sometimes I think women in power will help change the system. When women get fired over trying to change the system? Ugh. Picture repost from #notsurprised Today’s firing came from a director who, no surprise, hosted the #carlandre exhibit. I say again, #wewishanamendietawasstillalive Some is art is a commodity- Koons or Hirst. I am interested in art and money now because 1. I am making objects for the first time 2. I want to sell them 3. Artist me craves validation 4. Is there any ethical capitalism? 5. I want to share my work 6. Is making it without trying to share it laboring under false pretenses? 7. Who do I make art for? I know art helped me, feminist art saved my life by showing me my world, artists want to make art, but how do we share it? What are we responsible for? If we are not part of the market, then the market, and therefore the museums, keep propping up work like Hirst and Koons. The art market is unregulated. Paintings don’t have previous prices attached, like houses and land. These firings are related to the market. What do collectors want? The art fairs are so people who want and like art can see a lot if it in a short amount of time- they don’t have to spend every Saturday at galleries. Fairs used to be for back room pieces. People want work that is layered and speaks to them and they can live with.How can we create personal relationships with collectors? Do they want to know the artists? We bypass gatekeepers here, on IG. I think people become curators because they love art, not money. #feministartist #feministperformanceart

[christenclifford]

#fuckyoupayme selfie in the bathroom before therapy. I got this last night and had to wear it today, even though it might not be appropriate for everything I have to do today. This morning Vera turned her whole body away from me “What?” I asked. “Can you put something on over your tank top?” I considered a sweater, then thought of my menopause sweats and said, “I will keep it covered completely when I am with you.” I think that was a good compromise. Thank you to @rjampol for the bodysuit and to her and to Project for Empty Space and @browngirlcurator and @pesgrabback @projectforemptyspace for the fabulous party last night. I walked in and my body yearned for kinetic experience. I felt exuberant and I danced. I made an ornament. I showed some people my studio. I ate cookies. I talked to artists @ventiko @tinyscissors and more. In therapy I think I pinpointed the moment when my voice was taken away from me. Yesterday I visited with feminist architect @donutholestudio and this morning I ran into my old friend Maren from college and we talked about the guy who was dating us both at the same time. Well, having sex with me and wooing her. “That fucker” she said. “I’m sorry,” I said. I am happy to be alive. #fuckcancer #feministart #feministperformanceart

[christenclifford]

‪Today- therapy, talk to a reporter about sexual abuse, meeting at a gallery, doc edit. All of this is good and TERRIFYING. Moving thru all of this without alcohol and cigarettes is fucking hard. Deep breath. Look around. Touch the nice texture of my Rachel Comey dress. ‬#rapeculture #rape #voice #therapy #feministart #feministperformanceart #touch

[christenclifford]

Studio in Newark @projectforemptyspace Thank you @browngirlcurator @rjampol #feministart #feministperformanceart #feministinresidence

[christenclifford]

I’m making a film. That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing art and making giant interior prints and a We Are All Pink Inside installation, and I am going to finish that rape book I’ve been working on for 10 years, AND I am starting a film project. It’s about cancer and rape- about how cancer forced certain reckonings, how I have to look at the past with a clear eye to let myself be loved in the future. And I hope it will be funny and weird. And maybe I’m taking on a big challenge to make the other challenges seem small. More do- able. I have had some emails with an old friend, an old flame, and I’m so tortured that I don’t have a book yet. And he replied with a story about letting go of the dream of the book. I have to figure out how to live. My numbers are low. I was terrified at the doctor this week, so convinced the cancer would be back. But it’s not. Maybe not yet. But maybe just...NOT. And the people I know who are not in remission, I want to love them in any way I can. I think if the old ladies on Devoe Street, who would say, “At least you have your health!” to each other when they said goodnight after watching TV on the street in beach chairs in the summer. Oh those summer streets. And now,what am I going to do with my health? Fight patriarchal systems, fight oppression, fight for representation of women and women of color and native women and LGBTQ. Tell stories. Tell my own story a million different ways. Never get it “right.” Strive for beauty and belief. Now it’s sinking in that I have this one glorious life. When I was growing up I wanted to be an artist. Then a ballerina, then a movie star, then a performance artist, then an actor, then a writer, then a solo show person, then a mother, then a curator, then a producer, then I became things I didn’t expect: resentful, harder, stuck. Then on my way to being unstuck I got cancer. And I really think it’s helped me . Cancer is a reckoning. A healing. A confrontation. A way to myself. Wish me luck. #cancer #fuckcancer #womeninfilm #performanceart #feministperformanceart #videoart #feministart

[christenclifford]

Meditating on makeup and lighting and representations of women. What is a woman? Made not born? With feminine attributes? Accident of biology? Selfie with new hair color in Sephora after primer, bb creme, blush, eyebrow pencil and fibers, lipstick and lash extensions. Second photo is on the street in Chelsea in front of the Kara Walker after swimming with no makeup, just the lashes. Why is there a strain of patriarchal masculinity that insists on power and subjugation and violence over women? Sometimes I get all gynocentric and I think men are jealous and fear the power of a body with a uterus to grow a life, the power of a body with full mammary glands with sustain a life. Rebecca Solnots piece praised the film mother! But I think the opposite- that it showed, yet again, a beautiful woman terrorized, victimized, and showed it in a beautiful way. Where is our cultural responsibility for violence? For gun ownership? For representation of women, LGBT, POC? No taxation without representation! Show us in media! Real women, not gorgeously raped, but middle aged and strong. I dyed my hair partly because I feared it aged me. Someone thought I was Vera's grandma. Representation is important. Some of my young students are hairy and love it, and at the same time they are self conscious. Hair is important. I became a writer and artist because as an actor I was not feeling powerful and creative very often. We need consent and mutual pleasure taught in sex ed classes. We need to remember that we have feeling bodies, not just looking bodies. What's the difference between being an object and being desired? I don't need to make myself good enough to be wanted. We all know it's not one industry or the other, it's American, Western, Capitalist, White Suprmemacist, Imperialist, Patriarchal Culture as a whole. Do we change from inside or revolution? Both, I hope. Solidarity. #selfie #feminist #feministperformanceart #selfie #representation #bellhooks #makeup #desire #fuckcancer

[christenclifford]

Thanks @timeoutnewyork for featuring #transville @milkandnightcuratorial in today's magazine. Show is TONIGHT 7-9 250 Broome Manhattan I am doing a #transformation performance #wolfwoman🐺🐺 🐺🐾🐺🐾🐺🐾🐺🐾🐺#wolfwoman #feministperformanceart #performanceart #fuckcancer This picture is by the FABULOUS @mtotheegg who took this @cobraclubbk at a benefit GRRRLS when I was doing a piece called #GoldFace

[sikegeist]

A little sneak peek of “Pretty//Disgusting”...one of the many games @purdymischief and I like to play. This shot comes from the most recent play sesh/showing of (pretty shiny cage)//Consu(Me) at @safehousearts in San Francisco. STAY TUNED for an excerpt from zee show which imma post online this weekend for yer pleasure, and more purrrfurrrmorance news!!! 💋 💋 💋 #purdymischief #performanceart #liveart #queerart #queertheatre #queerperformance #queerartist #feministperformanceart #feministperformance #performanceprotest #protestpretty #pretty #disgusting #strawberryapocalypse https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2jc3pFlaZ/?igshid=17rrt20zcq16c

[christenclifford]

One week ago tonight I was onstage doing my new show. My friend Emily came from Oakland! @the_yam_mam Karen Finley came on Friday! One of my idols. Getting to the point where I could get it on stage was so painful. It hurt so much. The making of the script, and the fighting the I’m-Not-Good-Enough’s and now .... I feel fine. Good even. I just have to keep doing the work. I can do that. Read and tweak and read and change and think about what I want to give the audience. So excited to keep working on this. Thank you Lucy and Will and Dixon and Ellie and Rob and everyone hi came to see it. #canceralovestory #cancer #fuckcancer #uterinecancer #ovariancancer #feministperformanceart #feministperformanceartist #soloperformance #christenclifford #karenfinley https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvkl4OMFNYT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qr40g9fgsnh