Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
Read more: Hannah Gadsby’s Gender AgendaFollowing the backlash of Netflix’s support of Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” comedy special, which featured racist transphobic “jokes”, Hannah Gadsby took a deal with Netflix to create a comedy special featuring genderqueer comics. The show, titled ‘Gender Agenda’, was tapped…
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Female Writer 她–美女作家
Read more: Female Writer 她–美女作家Yu Hong’s Female Writer, a painted and photographic portrait of the writer Zhao Bo 趙波 (b. 1971), recalls courtly images of idealized beauties. Yu, however, deliberately complicates the perspective in her composition: she asked the sitters for her She series…
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Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)
Read more: Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)Ladies’ Room, lasting fewer than six and a half minutes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at a women’s washroom in a nightclub located in a Beijing hotel. A male patron of Cui Xiuwen’s studio first took her there, and she acknowledges…
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MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?
Read more: MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022), is a collaborative art project, consisting of performances, performance series, performance art workshops and delegated performances, including contributions by over 180 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse…
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I want a president
Read more: I want a presidentInstalled on the occasion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I want a president renders a poignant portrait of the cultural and political climate in the early 1990s in New York City with words that still resonate today. Zoe Leonard,…
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Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Read more: Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in HaitiHaiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women…
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ACTS OF RESISTANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISMS AND THE ART OF PROTEST
Read more: ACTS OF RESISTANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISMS AND THE ART OF PROTESTPhotography has long been associated with acts of resistance. It is used to document action, share ideas, inspire change, tell stories, gather evidence and fight against injustice. This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international…
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Voguing As Resistance
Read more: Voguing As ResistanceThere were still bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station on Friday night; a fresh sign taped to a lamppost read “A Hate Crime Happened Here.” This is the place where, less than a week prior, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a…
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‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korea
Read more: ‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korean Saturday, thousands of women in red, black, and white gathered together in Seoul for what many consider the largest women-led protest ever in South Korean history. Shielding their faces with masks to protect themselves from harassment or online trolling,…
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On Abortion
Read more: On AbortionOn Abortion documents and conceptualises the dangers and damages caused by women’s lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion Under “natural” circumstances, the average woman would fall pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births.…