#johanna demetrakas

[margotfonteyns]

Womanhouse (1972): Bridal Staircase, created by Kathy Huberland

"Down the hall a white bride mannequin stands at the top of the staircase, bedecked with ribbons, flowers, veils and a smile. Her train extends to the foot of the stairs slowly discoloring to a muted grey. We see her—dirty, grey, used—crashed headlong into the bottom wall, the entire front half of her body invisible." — Miriam Schapiro

[halfabird]

Johanna Demetrakas, Womanhouse, 1974

[phantomladyoverparis]

Womanhouse (1974), Johanna Demetrakas

[cinemaisfemale]

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018, dir. Johanna Demetrakas)

[neeleys]

"I've only known for ten years that "no" is a complete sentence."

Jane Fonda in Feminists: What were they thinking? (2018)

[infinitemovielist]

[jacobjaredrude]

Les femmes ont le pouvoir.

(Women have the power)

[esperwatchesfilms]

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)

ESE: 75/100

50 +10 for Jane Fonda +10 for Lily Tomlin +10 for the excellent feminist stories -20 for poor, disjointed sort of documentary +10 for titties +5 for the brief mention of “9 to 5″

[michaelmoriartyappreciation]

Michael Moriarty as Larry Frank in Out of Line Directed by Johanna Demetrakas - 2001

[k00266003]

A R T. H A S. N O. G E N D E R

Acrylic Painting

While trying to explore some ideas for the "Play" project. I watched a documentary called "Feminist: What were they thinking?" by Johanna Demetrakas (2018) . The documentary is an apprecitiation of the wave of feminism in the 60´s and 70´s trhough the experiences of women who were portrayed by the photographer Cynthia McAdams in her book "Feminist Portraits 1974 - 1977" and also the experiences of young women in the comtemporary world; sadly demonstrating that we still have a long way to go.

This masterpiece inspired me to create this piece, but it also reminded me that throughout history the purpose of feminism has not been taken seriously, like if it was some kind of "game" or "joke". Nowadays some people still laugh at the word feminism and even harder at the ones that identify as one of them.

So i developed this idea called "We are not playing around!" which is a response to the current belief that feminism and feminists are just "playing around" wasting their time with no purpose.

06-10-21

[margotfonteyns]

Womanhouse (1972): Léa's Room, created by Karen LeCocq and Nancy Youdelman and based on Colette's Chéri.

"The piece de resistance of Léa's Room was Karen LeCocq's performance. She sat in front of the mirrored vanity and made up her fictional aging face. As she creamed, rouged, powdered, painted her eyes, reddened her mouth, and fixed her hair, she stared closely into the mirror as if she were telling it secrets. Her hands moved expertly, her eyes spoke. She was desperately trying to save her fading beauty, for which she had in the past received favors, friendship, love, and wealth. The performance in real time lasted as long as the process itself. It seemed interminable because each act was a reminder of moments, hours, days, weeks, months, years of a woman's life—precious time. Older women watched and cried. By the time she finished, we had seen only half the piece. Before our eyes, she began to remove all of the makeup. Slowly, she creamed her face, wiped it, wetted it, doused it, unglued it, and finally, patting it dry, she was once again—naked." — Miriam Schapiro

[halfabird]

Johanna Demetrakas, Womanhouse, 1974

[phantomladyoverparis]

Womanhouse (1974), Johanna Demetrakas

[imvus]

from johanna demetrakas's womanhouse

[silviamirapelis]

09.02.2021

Feminists: what were they thinking?, de Johanna Demetrakas.

Plaça del Dubte (Barcelona).

[gayworths]

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018) dir. Johanna Demetrakas