01 Jul 2009

Volume 24 of n.paradoxa has just been published

Volume 24 Material Histories (July 2009) contains:

*Red Chidgey, Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl discuss the politics of representation in the Ladyfest festivals, of which 200 have been organised around the world in the last decade in 'Ladyfest: material histories of everyday feminist art production'

*Lisa E. Bloom discusses the concepts of history present in the photographic and film work of Eleanor Antin in 'Tableaux Vivants, Dying Empires: Eleanor Antin's The Last Days of Pompeii, Roman Allegories and Helen's Odyssey'

*Katy Deepwell interviews Mirjam Westen about the current exhibition REBELLE: Kunst & Feminisme, 1969-2009 (MMKA, Arnhem)

*Anna Lena Lindberg writes about her struggle to introduce a 'Critical Gender Perspective in Art History/Visual Culture' in Lund University in Sweden

*Val Phoenix analyses the feminist performance exhibition and conference 're.act.feminism' (NBK, Berlin)

*Marian Evans considers the politics of museum exhibitions in relation to feminist histories of the women's art movement with regard to 'We Are Unsuitable for Framing' at Te Papa, New Zealand

*Olivia Nitis in 'Material Histories: Feminism and feminist art in post-revolutionary Romania'
analyses her own intervention as the curator of Perspective 2008 in Bucharest in the context of women's art practice and understandings of feminism/women's position in the last decade.

*Joanna S. Walker 'An Encounter with Nancy Spero' discusses this artist's approach to dialogue as a working method and how her own encounter with her subject has made her question her approach to writing an artists' biography.

*Pamela Allara interviews 'Susan Woolf about her work and a public art project called 'Taxi Driver Signs in South Africa'

*Charlotte Lindenberg in 'Barbara T. Smith Revisited' examines how performance history can be written and the importance of recognising individual practices.

*Views of 53rd Venice Biennale – a picture feature of this year's biennale.
In the Light of Play Durban Art Gallery – a picture feature on this exhibition.
plus Artist's Pages by Gisela Weimann La Notte Blu

To obtain a copy go to: www.ktpress.co.uk

n.paradoxa is an international bi-annual journal for women writers, curators, artists and critics of contemporary art (post-1970) who write about the work of contemporary women artists and its relationship to feminist theory: located anywhere in the world. n.paradoxa is bi-annual and published in English. ISSN: 1461-0434.
KT press is a UK company. Co. no. 3492334

Please write to the editor: k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk with a one-page proposal and information about yourself as author.

Call for Papers for future volumes.

Volume 25 (Jan 2010) of n.paradoxa is on the theme of Pleasure.
Have feminist art practices proposed new models of pleasure? Do they challenge ideas about women's pleasures or reinforce them? While women artists have challenged the assumptions embedded within the male gaze, have they shifted the object position for women in representation as something-to-be-looked-at? Is there a focus on the different kinds of visual, aural, sensual, or tactile pleasures in women's contemporary art work produced in the last 40 years? Articles on the subject of pleasure or pleasures - visual, aural, sensual, physical or in terms of other forms of pleasure/pain producing sensations - are welcome.

Future volumes are planned for vol 26, July 2010 and vol 27, January 2011.