Art Theory - S2 week 10

Art and feminism

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/tate/women-in-art/womens-issues-in-art/v/lily-van-der-stokker

"Lily van der Stokker’s exhibition No Big Deal Thing at Tate St Ives. The Dutch artist, based in Amsterdam and New York, produces elaborate and decorative wall drawings that deal with seemingly banal events like paying bills, cleaning, cooking: the stuff of everyday life. Executing her drawings in a childlike and almost naïve manner, van der Stokker also makes use of pattern, decoration, furniture, and the tools of domestic space."

This was very interesting, as he works a very different and interesting. As to see her works go from a child-like drawing and interpretation of the everyday domestic lifestyle to life-size installation is very intriguing as I would see that as feminist work but since it's about the domestic life and being a domestic woman I would see how people would consider it to be feminist. 

Guerilla girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSVtXJAKY

The guerilla girls are a very great example of women supporting women and healthy feminism, as it bout spreading awareness of women in art galleries. 

Not everything has to be feminist, just because I Identify as a female and are born a female doesn't mean my works has to be classified as feminist. Even if a woman's work has feministic values or themes does it mean it is feminist? As discussed in class even if the works where feminist or not isn't it up to the viewer's interpretation to label it as feminist or not. As all feminism within art is a label, as we as humans feel the need to label things. So it is up to the viewer gaze and viewership to say if it is or not feminist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RzlCf-f8_U

This panel was very different as it talked about feminism opening in a nonbias manner so everyone could have their opinion and thought about it. It also brought a lot of great in-class conversation on where we all fitted in and felt about feminism. As a lot of them talked about the stigma and stereotyping that comes along with feminism and how we all felt bad about identifying as one because we didn't want to be looked as a stereotype. As we all just wanted to fight for equality for all and not men bash which is what everyone thinks feminism is about. As I said I would call myself an equalist, not a feminist. I was also interesting how we also felt that just because our work is about equality and expressing sexuality and self-love or are reacting to a sexist act does it mean our work is feminist?  though it was also discussed that it all depends on viewership as its all down to the viewer of the work and what they see what they interpret from the works.