25 Jan 2017

n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal: Volume 39

Volume 39 (in print) contains 96 pages of articles/interviews by women art critics/ curators/artists from Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, UK, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA, China and Poland looking at many types of women's art organisations, their histories and policies as well as many forms of organising with/ for women artists.

The editorial is available to read online at our website.

Contents:

Eliza Tan 'Revisiting Art, Feminism and Memory in Singapore and Japan since the 1990s: Amanda Heng and Yoshiko Shimada'. This extensive interview reflects on the rise of women artists' exhibitions and feminism in Singapore and Japan during the 1990s and many pan-Asian initiatives with which these two women artists have been involved.

Kirsty Baker writes about 'The Women's Gallery in Wellington: an 'Educational, Supportive and Exploratory' space'. Existing between 1980-1984, this article outlines the history of this space in New Zealand, run by a changing collective of over 120 women, and considers some of its exhibitions, critical reception and reflects on several works exhibited there.

Katrin Hassler 'On Gender Statistics in the Art Field and Leading Positions in the International Sphere'.
In this article Katrin Hassler reviews the statistics available on women artists and presents her own research into the 'top one hundred' listings as well as juxtaposing research on curators/museums with the situation of women artists in the art market.

Hannah Martin-Merchant 'Engaging Publics with Arts Institutions: The Frameworks of a Feminist Pedagogy' is based on interviews with four women: Janna Graham at Nottingham Contemporary, artist Jo Dacombe about her Loudspeaker project, and Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman of the curatorial team Day+Gluckman.

Maria Antonietta Trasforini in this extensive article analyses the history of Biennale Donna in Ferrara, Italy looking at three phases in their development: 1984-1994, 1996-2006 and post-2008 to the present in 'The Long Durée: The Making of Biennale Donna in Italy'

Robin Alex McDonald ''There's the Problem': On Love's Role in Feminist, Lesbian and Queer Arts Organizing' - how love can function as a basis for activism is considered in two contrasting examples, the interventions of the Lesbian Art Collective in 1975 and the strategies adopted around making/sending Valentine's cards in the workshop-based activities of Love Positive Women (2015).

Carron Little discusses her project 'Spare Rib Revisited' as the basis for her contribution as a diary of 'An Artists' Residence in Lucerne'

Claire Dykhuis with Solmaz Asheri present an outline of 'Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University's Feminist Collective' from 1977 to the present. This article reviewing the interventions of the collective in the culture of the art school incorporates a collage of documents from the Collective's work history.

Yueqi Chen interviews Asian-American artist and activist Cythina Tom about her project in the Bay Area called 'A PLACE OF HER OWN'

Katarzyna Kosmala 'Becoming Imperceptible M/Other: Negotiating Porous Multiple Selves' reflects on works by Croatian and Polish artists shown in 'Exporting Zagreb' at the National Museum of Gdansk in 2016. It explores in particular the question of 'nomadic motherhood' in women artist's works to highlight the position of being 'in-between' different nation-states as well as 'inter'/ 'mezzo' forms of nomadic subjectivity (from Rosi Braidotti)

Photo Features:-
Pauline Barrie ;A Third Viewing: Women Artists' Slide Library exhibitions 1982-1987' looks back at the history of this organisation
in London and presents rarely seen images of its initial exhibitions which helped to frame its policy of working with women artists.

Stef. Engel, Kate Henderson, *durbahn present the work, policy and space of 'bildwechsel – umbrella organisation for women/art/media' in Hamburg, Germany.

A double page photo-feature on Women artists in the first Yinchuan Biennale (China) 'For an Image, Faster than Light'.

n.paradoxa has published 550+ articles by or about 400+ artists and writers from 80+ countries in 39 vols since 1998.
Its website has extensive resources of books, links, exhibitions catalogues on feminism and women artists, including special projects on 1000+MA/PhDs; Feminist-Art-Topics.

Editor: Katy Deepwell
International editorial board: Renee Baert, Silvia Eiblmayr, Joanna Frueh, Hagiwara Hiroko, Janis Jefferies, Hilary Robinson and Bisi Silva.

n.paradoxa's work 2010-2016 is currently featured in the exhibition:
'HERstory - des archives à l'heure des postféminismes' (21 Jan-19 March 2017) at La Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France.

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