Art Theory - week 7 - 25/03/2019

Thought Process on my question

1.What is your role as artist in the work?

To create the statement of equality, to be political and give the people who's voice isn't heard a voice. 

2.What is significant about material, method, process in your project?

There is nothing significant about what I'm doing an how I am doing it. I believe everything has been done before in the art world it is only difference is own perspective or personality invading it. I am doing a self portrait and forcing myself to be personal with my work connecting myself with my work. 

This is something I would like to further look into, expressing self through art and the connection between self and art in a spiritual matter and/or tradition.  

3.How is the viewer involved in your project? What is important about this involvement?

The viewer is very involved in the viewing my art as they are the one who is seeing the message and trying to connect with the painting and take away the message. A massive part of this is context and communication, as if they don't understand the context or don't know what it is communicating than it is not doing its purpose of making a statement or message.  

4.How do institutional contexts e.g. viewing sites, art world etc impact on your work?

Context is very important with my works, as it helps portray and communicate the message better. The poster is meant of the public eye so it will be installed in a public place but the place has to be relevant to the context of the image. So if it is placed in a non-relevant location to the image than it will not connect to the context. Or it could take the image out of context. 

5.How is meaning/knowledge produced or shared in your work?

My work is suppose to express equality sexuality and self empowerment, while stating the statement what I wear isn't consent. This is why context is very important to my works. If the context is not done right than the meaning will not come across correctly and be taken out of context. which I am trying to avoid, though this seems to be unavoidable due to perspective point of view. This is why I have made it such a big part of my study this year. 

6.What are the significant social, political, cultural and historical contexts and how do they inform your approach?

I am looking into feminist movement in a modern context and what it means to be a feminist now, I am also looking into the origins of feminism and what they did and why they did it as I think it's important to understand history and the reason why exist before executing your own way of doing it. I am also looking into political art, and what is done in political art and the context of it. also the relevance behind both of them. Why do we need political art? 
By looking into these I have now a wider understanding of context, appropriation and history behind these movements. I also now understand myself as an artist and what I believe in and stand for. 
These all help with my work as they help my research and further narrow down my research as it is still very messy and does not have a clean path because there is so much to look into and many way to look at thing. Also feminism is a very board subject because there are a lot of concepts with in feminism 

7.Set this project in a different time/social/cultural frame – what would be different?

this is very important to look at and take in to consideration, because the movement of feminism will have a different motive and reasons behind there movement and the way the execute the movement and how they get their voice out there. Which I find interesting as it shows how far women and men have come to get to how we are today. It shows how much people have fought together to get the rights we have together, though it still doesn't affect everywhere in the world. There are still place sin the world that do not have the same rights. which I think is important to look at, as some places are fighting for the rights the women fought for years ago and got but women now still don't have.
I also thinks its good to look at who was fighting, was it just women? what cultural background do they have? what social status to they have?  age? what is there sex? identity?
As I believe feminism is for everyone because it is to express equity in sex and cultural. though some people will not agree with me on that.




Different time periods means different feminist movements different motives and different point of views.

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Feminist-Theory
"The concepts of feminism include:

Gender: culturally determined cognitions, attitudes, and belief systems about females and males

Sex: the descriptive, biologically-based variable that is used to distinguish females and males

Sex Roles:patterns of culturally approved behaviors that are regarded as more desirable for either females or males

types of feminist
Liberal Feminism
radical feminism
Cultural feminism
Social feminism
Postmodern feminism"

From reading from this web sight it got me further into think about what feminism is for the the reasons behind it, and how it first got created. also got me think about what feminism is today and how now its being taken way out of context and it is no longer about equality and there is a massive
misconception that is about repressing men and women are the superior sex and everything is all rape culture. It is very much taken out of context and miss representing what feminism is all about.
It also made me think of these questions -
What are you fighting for?
are you fighting for equality or are you oppressing the male sex?
How are you communicating your statement?
Is there are need to be provocative and over the top now than back when they had to be to be heard?

I have also looked into non feminist point of views so I can get and understanding in all views, to see why it is such a heated topic to talk about. As I try and stand in the middle and keep my opinions to myself so I can understand others peoples views and were they are coming from to understand a more rounded views of what feminism is and what it does/stands for today. A lot of this is to do with context and how women are no longer fighting for equality and are fighting to suppress men and fighting for  things that are unnecessary or don't need to be fought for. I looked into some male perspective as well to see why they don't like feminism and also women as well, I also looked at the reaction it created. The reaction that alot of these blog post created just further emphasized what was wrong with feminism today and the wrong type of feminism that isn't about equality.

Relevant art critique Shannon Jackson she talks about social works performing art supporting public. Support is something that I am looking at because that is what feminism is all about. it is also interesting to hear here talk about they way she views support and the context of it, as not a lot of people talk about support as it is such an everyday life thing that I believe is very important.

I could no find a full published part of her book but what I could read I did find quite interesting, as I looked into her first chapter of Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Public were she talks about performance, aesthetics and support.
 This is what I found that was quite interesting: