#performative art

[sagradofemenin0]

Women in the Rain, by Marina Abramović.

[artandbeauty71]

Listening to great pianists play knowing my level will likely never go beyond amateurish and watching endless ballet performances thinking about all the years spent dancing while being "not good enough" at it as a child plus totally out of shape now - yet still loving and being obsessed with them both - is a whole other kind of bittersweet melancholy ngl

[silverlovesmadi]

Sign the Petition

Immediate removal of the “Grounded in the Stars” Statue in Times Square– It’s causing harm

I am in full support of Black American women resting and enjoying ease. The placing of this statue in the middle of Times Square clearly violates and disrespects this much needed rest era and therefore harbors on tone deaf.

Anybody who is in support of this image of a black woman (and other statues like it outside of the US) not being used as a public square target by a biracial male with a white mother / black father (and allegedly white wife) in the middle of an incredibly dangerous unsafe hostile scary political climate, please sign the petition and help create a safer environment for your black little girls.

Safety, rest and protection for black women and girls is all that matters.

[jake-the-wolfie]

[daily-contemporaryart]

Stills from Marina Ambramović and Ulay “The Great Wall", 1988.

[leftistfeminista]

Cheril Linett: “Claramente hay transgresión de la moral de algunos en mis trabajos”

La artista de performance habla de colonización, femicidio y otras preocupaciones de su obra….

The image of a woman with her underpants down around her ankles, awkwardly waddling is one that conveys vulnerability and the complete loss of dignity. And that was the image that Pinochet's guards meant to convey when they did not allow revolutionary women leaders to pull them back up after being flogged. They suffered the humiliation of having to shuffle back to their comrades with them around their ankles, like a punished schoolgirl. Guards would mockingly taunt how they would lead The Revolution if they couldn't even pull their panties back up in fear.

Coming from this background of Chilean history in which sexual humiliation was such a poignant weapon of the patriarchal capitalist dictatorship, Cheril Linett has worked hard to reclaim these symbols of degradation as symbols of empowerment. While her tactics are controversial the are a decisive refutation of the misogynist ideology of Pinochet. That a woman in her panties that has been sexually humiliated and abused is no longer to be taken seriously. That she is no longer a dignified revolutionary guerilla leader. She is helpless, pathetic, ridiculous. The Yeguas take the very symbols of humiliation that the Junta used and turn it into empowerment. Can a naked woman or a woman in panties be a revolutionary? They scream yes! It is a powerful challenge against the most dangerous weapon used on revolutionary leftist women.

The figure of “underpants down” is in the imagination. How is it presented in your work?

Cheril Linett: It is proposed as an exercise of imagining to complete. We know that it is an intimate garment in direct contact with the vagina and vaginal discharges that are not usually visible, the image of the underwear below can be read from different perspectives. The first time we incorporated this resource we asked certain people to take down our pants and they were very careful to do so; For the following actions I decided that we should lower our pants ourselves. The mother of one of the girls told me that when she saw us with our underwear down, she had the sensation of seeing our underwear at half mast and her way of interpreting it made sense to me.

[voluptama]

curviologist

© Michaela Stark