73WOMEN EXHIBITION -2011
I-SHO ( I'S, SHE'S, HERS and OURS)
http://73women.blogspot.com/
created, curated and organised by
Banu Cansever and Caroline Halliday
Selected Artworks from I-SHO >>> http://73women.blogspot.com/2011/07/selected-artworks-from-i-sho.html
Dear Friends, Artists, Art Lovers, Feminists, Activists
Here are some thoughts from our exhibition;
Feminism certainly transformed social relations and personal identities, as well as structures. (i.e. patriarchal, institutional) and feminist movement in art has no less radical impact and transformative effect than the social movement which it took its drive. Certainly 60s and 70s was an era of the most groundbreaking works done by various forms, however feminism in art considerably less understood. The idea of revising and expanding canon has been made possible by those who have followed the movement, now it is not trendy and kinda bold to create and name it as feminist.
For some women artists like ourselves this is an ongoing movement, and in order to reconnect to the word 'move', that has all the possibilities, ours is a contribution to this movement. Feminist movement addresses not only gender and identity construction but also it is about the space, representation, value, clothing, deconstruction, humanism, equality, having voices. So, yes indeed this is a celebration of achieving something un fashionable in contemporary sense, however in a wider concept it is a pleasure to turn on the wheel and keep the movement free and floating.
Also, the fragments of histories and traces, can only be recombined into new forms by producing new meanings and insights of reality. We cannot just ignore the impact of feminist movement in art, therefore we must go on, until we start to achieve something new.
There is an ongoing creativeness of the aesthetic experience, it will go further as long as we keep the wheel turning...you cannot achieve the next level by ignoring the power of this movement. Once was popular and now seems as if we have everything in equal terms. The dilemma sets in between because there is no time in art, you should be able to go back and forth and back again in order to go on more...
created, curated and organised by
Banu Cansever and Caroline Halliday
Selected Artworks from I-SHO >>> http://73women.blogspot.com/2011/07/selected-artworks-from-i-sho.html
Dear Friends, Artists, Art Lovers, Feminists, Activists
Here are some thoughts from our exhibition;
Feminism certainly transformed social relations and personal identities, as well as structures. (i.e. patriarchal, institutional) and feminist movement in art has no less radical impact and transformative effect than the social movement which it took its drive. Certainly 60s and 70s was an era of the most groundbreaking works done by various forms, however feminism in art considerably less understood. The idea of revising and expanding canon has been made possible by those who have followed the movement, now it is not trendy and kinda bold to create and name it as feminist.
For some women artists like ourselves this is an ongoing movement, and in order to reconnect to the word 'move', that has all the possibilities, ours is a contribution to this movement. Feminist movement addresses not only gender and identity construction but also it is about the space, representation, value, clothing, deconstruction, humanism, equality, having voices. So, yes indeed this is a celebration of achieving something un fashionable in contemporary sense, however in a wider concept it is a pleasure to turn on the wheel and keep the movement free and floating.
Also, the fragments of histories and traces, can only be recombined into new forms by producing new meanings and insights of reality. We cannot just ignore the impact of feminist movement in art, therefore we must go on, until we start to achieve something new.
There is an ongoing creativeness of the aesthetic experience, it will go further as long as we keep the wheel turning...you cannot achieve the next level by ignoring the power of this movement. Once was popular and now seems as if we have everything in equal terms. The dilemma sets in between because there is no time in art, you should be able to go back and forth and back again in order to go on more...
