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FROM THE ARCHIVE 2016 : ‘Grope An Artist’  (£2 a grope) Performance from ‘Photographing Girls’ Hands on or Hands off? The Art Car Boot Fair, London

The theme for the London Art Car Boot Fair in 2016 ‘Hands on or Hands off?’ All hands on deck as this year as it’s all about the hand. Yes a bit of Slap and Tickle! HANDS ON OR HAND OFF? ‘GROPE AN ARTIST’ cop a handful with artist Julia Riddiough as she prostitues herself for art and much more! http://www.artcarbootfair.com/about

Groping not your thing? Then take a peek at ‘Photographing Girls’ images that grab you instead at Art Car Boot Fair 2016!  We are told sex sells, but exactly what kind of sex sells? These images sell more than just products they sell us concepts of sex. We see that the media as commercial organisations use stereotypes to sell us things that we don’t really need and these stereotypes create a false sense of ourselves; how we see, how are able and allowed or made to see. Ultimately defining who we are and how we should live. http://www.juliariddiough.com/works/photographing-girls-/

“the gender power asymmetry is a controlling force in cinema and constructed for the pleasure of the male viewer, which is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideologies and discourses.“ This means that the white heterosexual male viewer is the target audience, therefore their needs are met first and that this problem stems from an old fashioned, male-driven society. The theory by Laura Mulvey on how women are portrayed in film and the media is just as prevalent today as it was in 1975 when her text was first published.