This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous communities, others responded to global issues of military dictatorship, racial discrimination, or masculine privilege in regions other than their own. Women, trans, and third-gender artists continue to highlight and challenge the disturbing legacies of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, communism, and other political ideologies that are correlated with patriarchy, primogeniture, sexism, or misogyny. The book argues that solidarity among such artists remains valuable and empowering for those who still seek legitimate recognition in art schools, cultural institutions, and the history curriculum.
Author(s): Gillian Hannum, Kyunghee Pyun
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 350
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Introduction
Introduction: Artists for Political Engagement: A Table for Women and Gender Non-conforming Artists
From Activism to Branding: The 1960s to the 2000s
Beyond National Borders: The 2020s
About This Book
Conclusion
Part II: Countering Colonialism
Native Feminisms and Contemporary Art: Indigeneity, Gender, and Diné Resurgence in the Work of Natani Notah and Jolene Nenibah Yazzie
Introduction
Native Feminisms
Natani Notah and the Resurgence of Respect for Diné Women and Land
Jolene Nenibah Yazzie and the Resurgence of Non-binary Diné Genders
Conclusion
Disrupting the Silence: Australian Aboriginal Art as a Political Act
Black Opium
Badtjala Removal
Veiled Paradise/Bone Boxes
HHH
Part III: Against the Establishment
Spanking Confucius: The Feminist Protest Art of Kang-ja Jung
Transparent Balloons and the Nude
Kang-ja Jung’s Ephemeral Dress
Nam June Paik’s Sex on a Piano
New Woman and Nude in East Asia
From Non-conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the 1970s to Today
Irina Nakhova and Non-conformist Art
Tatiana Antoshina and the Birth of the Feminist Movement in Russia
Olga Tobreluts, Perestroika, and Beyond
Conclusion
The Personal and the Political in Liminal Space: A Conversation Between Sandy Lane and Joo Yeon Woo Addressing Artivism in the Korean DMZ
The Artnauts in the DMZ
The Space Between
Personal and Political
From South Africa to Afghanistan and America: An Exploration of Female Street Artists and the Socially Disruptive Nature of Their Work
Lady Pink
Swoon
Olek
Faith XLVII
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Shamsia Hassani
Conclusion
Part IV: Dislocation and Migration
Yong Soon Min’s Defining Moments: Gendered Space of Decolonization in the Pacific
Introduction
Awareness of Identity as a Korean American
Growing Political Points: Connecting with Asian-American Artists
Feminist Context as the Third World Woman
Building Political Comments from Personal Life
Gendered Space of Decolonization
Conclusion
Sited Nomadism from the Atlantic to West Africa: Addoley Dzegede
Introduction
Indexing the Personal Within the Political
Belonging
Ballast and Millefiori: Evocative Objects
Conclusions
Alterity in Europe—Occupying Spaces as Feminist Strategy in (Post)Migration Aesthetics: A Conversation
Introduction
The Role of Migration, Gender, and Ethnicity in Appropriating and Occupying Space
The Constant Fluctuation of Bodies and Spaces: Foreign Bodies and Foreigners
Occupying Spaces as a Feminist Strategy: Engaging the Positionality of the Feminine and the Female Migrant Body
The Presence of the Feminine as a Form of Claiming and Occupying Public Space
Dynamics of Contestation and Processes of Negotiating Gendered Inequality and Alterity Across Different Public, Institutional, and Private Spaces
Wallpaper: Control and Protection in Private Space
Forming and Influencing Feminist Value Systems: Art in a (Post)migration Context
Maria Jose Arjona, Into the Woods
Part V: Race and Gender Identity
Blurring Lines/Breaking Barriers: Harlem and Beyond, the Career of International Photographer Ming Smith
Kamoinge
The Black Photographers Annual
Just Above Midtown
Photographing the Black Woman
Literary Inspiration: Pittsburgh and Harlem
Painted Photographs
International Subjects/International Recognition
Looking Ahead
Queer Craft and Radical Cuts: Tradition, Transgenderism, and the Malay-Muslim Body in the Work of Anne Samat
When You’ve Never Seen a Lion: Halo Rossetti on Visually Representing the Intricacies of Queer and Trans Life
Wading into Water Alone: Early Explorations
Under the Seams Runs the Pain: Karan Devine and the Trans Art of Disidentification
Developing a “Gay Consciousness” with “Planet Femme”
“Dysphoria-Cam” in PONY: Inventing a Trans Cinematic Language
“It Wasn’t Your Fault”
The Future Is More than Female: Post-Feminist Trans/Feminism in Contemporary Art
Introduction
Travis Alabanza
Intersectional Feminist Praxis Now
Briefly on Burgerz
Post-Feminism and Trans/Feminism
Back to Burgerz
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
