2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black feminist lesbian poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States. AUDRE LORDE – THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a […]
Shu Lea Cheang is best known for her 2000 cult smash I.K.U. in which sensual cyborgs fuck for information and pleasure. The film, heavily influenced by Blade Runner, is perhaps the first cyperpunk movie to radically explore the possibilities of cybernetic sexualities. The pioneer in the field of media art embraced internet and hacking culture early on, recognizing both its capacity to enslave as well as liberate, mixing that with queer and sexually explicit imagery bringing something new to the cultural landscape. Cheang describes herself as both a “cyberhomesteader” and a “high-tech aborigine” hinting at meta-levels of not only her own life, but the worlds of her films.
Sanja Iveković’s Triangle is an 18-minute performance that took place on 10 May 1979: while Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito’s motorcade passes by below, the artist is sitting on her balcony, reading a book, sipping whiskey and making ‘gestures’ as if performing masturbation, until a security official arrives and asks her to leave. Exhibited as four black-and-white photographs and a short descriptive text, Triangle is one of the most resonant and defiant works of performance made in the 1970s.
Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist science fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.
“In August 2000 I started “Looking for a Husband with EU Passport” project: www.cac.org.mk/capital/ostojic. After publishing an ad with this title, I exchanged over 500 letters with numerous applicants from around the world. After a correspondence of six months with a German man Klemens G. I arranged our first meeting as a public performance in […]
Six scantily dressed women chat while freshening up. At the instigation of one of them, all get up and perform a brief choreography.This short, naughty scene was to be watched in private: it could only be seen through a Théoscope, a home cinema, dating back to the turn of the 20th century. see the film>>
GENDERNAUTS explores phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in the Bay Area, California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological women who use the male sexual hormone testosterone. We get to know San Francisco’s leading […]
En este ensayo documental, Villaplana aborda la problemática de la “masculinidad de mujer”, contraponiendo dos experiencias: por una parte una entrevista a Marco, transexual de mujer a hombre que nos narra en primera persona su operación de cambio de sexo y cómo ha afectado a su vida; y por otra, la acción dragking de la […]
En Retroalimentación Virginia Villaplana reúne las prácticas fotográficas de intervención cultural queer que desde 1990 ha desarrollado el colectivo activista LSD y Fefa Vila, una de sus fundadoras, en España. Con una factura de videoclip experimental se muestran las obras que a lo largo de la década de los 90 llevó a cabo este colectivo […]
– Retrato documental de Moisés, en transformación desde su anterior identidad como Ana. Una búsqueda de modelo referencial que le integre sensiblemente a través de su voz y las opiniones de sus compañeros. El individuo y su identidad particular autogenerada es la razón del documental “El camino de Moisés”. Una investigación a cerca del transgénero […]
‘Mutantes’ is a documentary on pro-sex feminism by Virginie Despentes, originally conceived as an audiovisual complement to her book ‘King Kong Theory’. Unlike the abolitionist feminist movement, the pro-sex feminist movement, which began in the United States during the 1980s, asserts that representations of the body and of pleasure are areas that must be taken […]
Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro, The Guerrilla Girls, Nanci Spero and many other leading names from the North American art scene of the Seventies and Eighties discuss the ideas that defined feminist art. !W.A.R reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of […]