Documentation on round table on the Italian feminist art critic Carla Lonzi (1931-1982)

sharing this message from Francesco Ventrella:

"I am sending you a link to some videos documenting a round table on the Italian feminist art critic Carla Lonzi (1931-1982). We are really interested in circulating her groundbreaking work on art writing and feminism, hoping it might trigger a new scholarship on Italian art during between the 1950s-70s. The conference, was organised by Giovanna Zapperi and the Centre Simone Beauvoir. Just browse the menu on the right to find all the contributors."

http://travellingfeministe.org/blog/?p=67

Music and Liberation: A Compilation of Music from the Women’s Liberation Movement: CD

The Women's Liberation Music Archive
Feminist music-making from the 1970/80s
wlmmusicarchive@gmail.com

 
'... an invaluable record of how in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement the message was in the music as much as in the spoken and written word.' - Sheila Rowbotham

' ... And it's freaking cool.' - Bidisha

‘Music and Liberation: A Compilation of Music from the Women’s Liberation Movement’, the CD created for the ‘Music and Liberation’ exhibition is now available from the Women’s Liberation Music Archive for £10, which includes postage and packing

. Comprising twenty tracks by some of the feminist musicians from the 1970s and 80s - Abandon Your Tutu, Bad Habits, Bright Girls, Fabulous Dirt Sisters, Feminist Improvising Group, Frankie Armstrong, Friggin Little Bits, Ginger and Spice, Hi-Jinx, Jam Today, Mistakes, No Rules OK, Ova, Proper Little Madams, Sadista Sisters, Siren, Spoilsports, Stepney Sisters, York Street Band, plus an informative booklet - this is a unique opportunity to revisit or discover some of these sounds – or introduce friends and family to the music and activism of the era! All proceeds from the CD will be used for the upkeep of the Women’s Liberation Music Archive, a not-for-profit, voluntary and otherwise unfunded project. The Archive is dedicated to documenting, celebrating and preserving the history of the wealth and diversity of 1970s and 80s feminist music-making, while demonstrating its importance in the political and social context of that era. You can view the archive online at
http://womensliberationmusicarchive.co.uk/
and contact the Administrator, Frankie Green, at wlmmusicarchive@gmail.com.

What can history do? What does history mean to you? What does history mean to us? – Call for Contributions

The Feminist Archive South have funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a pamphlet that explores how feminist, women’s and other radical histories shape lives, understandings of social change, collective dreams, hopes, disappointments and imaginations.

The pamphlet will be published for the end of the Ellen Malos’ Archives project in September 2013. It will be distributed to schools, further education colleges and libraries in Bristol, the South West and further afield on request (we have limited budget for distribution but can provide free copies should you want some).

We invite people to explore these questions in whatever way they wish, but please do think about the question of what history can do, what it means to individuals and what it can possibly mean to communities, collectives or whatever other way you want to envision/ interrogate/ reconfigure/ think about ‘us.’

Contributions should be written in a non-specialist language as it is envisaged that a wide range of ages and backgrounds will read the pamphlet.

We want to use the pamphlet as a space to explore the practicalities of history making – for example running discussion and memory groups, oral history projects, grassroots archives (on and offline), exhibitions and other ways individuals and communities explore, recover and use history to understand their identities, where they live or the cultures they belong to.

If you work for a feminist or women’s archives, please consider a contribution that tells us about your collection – we plan to have a directory at the back which lists archives and libraries where people can find out about history.

You may also want to consider if digital media has had an impact on the question of what history can do, and how it is shaping individuals and communities right now.

Other contributions can be in the form of

• Visual art e.g., Illustrations, photos, cartoons, posters
• Essays and critical writing
• Philosophical reflections
• Telling radical histories
• Profiles of archives, collections, museums, projects, websites/ web resources
• Practical ‘how to’ articles – e.g., how to use an archive, how to work with historical sources, digital archiving and information management
• Creative Writing, including poetry
• Interviews with interesting projects
• Interviews with people in your community

All written contributions must not exceed 1500 words

All images must be sent as JPEGs 300 DPI

Deadline for contributions

15 July 2013

Please send contributions to fa_south@yahoo.co.uk and contact us for further information

 http://feministarchivesouth.org.uk

Twitter: @femarchivesouth

Please distribute widely!

Miguel Bonneville : WHEN THIS KIND OF FIRE STARTS

INAUGURAÇÃO 4 MAIO /// 17H

MUNDANO GALERIA
Rua de Santos Pousada, 668, Porto
4 Maio - 3 Junho

Curadoria - Sofia de Eça

As obras apresentadas em When this kind of fire starts são visões solitárias sobre a fragilidade de um recomeço, obras de uma natureza insular que se desdobram na procura de outras saídas, de outros caminhos passíveis de serem percorridos. São como páginas arrancadas de um diário que se apresentam como um gesto de libertação - que por mais ‘em bruto’ que seja – nos revela uma mensagem pessoal, um processo de triagem, um desejo de sabotar e expor o peso da vida e da ordem sociais.

When this kind of fire starts marca o re-início de uma consciência de que, mais do que nunca, o pessoal é politico, e que ‘o caminho da simplicidade é o mais tortuoso de todos.
+info: http://miguelbonneville.blogspot.pt | www.mundano.pt

SALON ABOUT FEMINIST ART PRACTICES

n.paradoxa is starting a monthly salon in London (venue is near Waterloo Station) about feminist art practices.

First dates: 16 May, 13 June, 18 July 2013

£5 entry fee
Drinks, wine, bottled beers and light refreshments will be available to purchase at the event.

The salon is a networking and exchange event for women artists, writers, critics and curators who readily identify themselves with feminist art practices and would like to discuss feminist ideas in relation to the visual arts, recent and/or future opportunities and art projects.

If you are passing through London for business or pleasure on any of these dates or would like to attend just one event, please contact us. You would be most welcome.

This event is a forum for professional women artists, curators and writers to meet. The editor of n.paradoxa, Katy Deepwell, will be there as well as contributors to the journal.

The salon is an opportunity for each woman to share information about recent and future art projects with other women in a friendly and intimate setting.
More details at: http://www.ktpress.co.uk/salon.asp

Email ktpress@ktpress.co.uk to register (for specific dates or the series)
or use our online contact form http://www.ktpress.co.uk/contact.asp to
send your message and we will email you with further details of where the salon will be held.

Please email which date you would like to attend and just 2 lines (i.e. brief information) about who you are (i.e.your name and whether you are an artist/critic/writer/curator/artworker/scholar/lecturer) and what you want to present or discuss (i.e. title of recent or future project/ book/catalogue/ new work/latest exhibition/event).

Katy Deepwell
Editor of n.paradoxa

http://www.ktpress.co.uk/salon.asp

BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art Exhibition

BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art Exhibition
Opening: Friday 26 April, 6–8pm

Exhibition Dates: 27 April to 25 May 2013
Catherine Bell, Melanie Bonajo, Brown Council, Catherine or Kate, Patty Chang, Guerrilla Girls, Hotham Street Ladies, Alice Lang, Louise Lawler, Tracey Moffatt, Nat & Ali, Frances (Budden) Phoenix, Pushpamala N, Hannah Raisin, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Christian Thompson and Paul Yore. Curator: Laura Castagnini.
Featuring work by Australian and international artists, BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art seeks to challenge the ongoing stereotype of feminism as dry, dull and humourless. The exhibition affirms laughter as an important and potent tool for feminist artists across generations, geographies and political contexts. Humour has a unique ability to simultaneously disrupt and entertain, and lends itself readily to one of the overarching goals that unites the many feminisms; namely, to critique and destabilize patriarchy. Following on from last year’s lecture by the Guerrilla Girls, BACKFLIP will present a range of strategies and approaches from slapstick to satire, detouring through irony and black humour.
BACKFLIP: Public Events Panel 1: Acting Out (Linda Sproul, Nat & Ali, Hannah Raisin): Thursday 2 May, 6-8pm Panel 2: What’s So Funny? (Catriona Moore, Catherine Bell and others): Thursday 9 May, 6-8pm Feminist Art Reading Group (New members welcome): Thursday 16 May, 6-8pm Performance event and closing drinks (Atlanta Eke, I’m Trying to Kiss You, Mish Grigor and others): Thursday 23 May, 6-8pm
Venue: Margaret Lawrence Gallery Victorian College of the Arts 40 Dodds Street, Southbank 3006 Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Dreaming through –on & into the exotic

Dreaming through –on & into the exotic
paula roush  & maria lusitano

Private View: 4th of April : 19.00 – 21.00

4th of April – 18th of May                         

Opening times: Mon. - Fri. 11:00 - 17:00

198Contemporary Arts & Learning

198 Railton Road, London SE24 0JT

In the show Dreaming through –on & into the exotic we present a mixed media collage salon, which explores travel and collage as interlinked cultural feminine practices in its relationship to contemporary art.  Through visual essays and publications, we revisit narratives, which combine historical archive and speculative fiction into the study of the modernist collage- novel.

The main subjects of these works range from Mary Delany’s invention of botanical collage (Flora Delanica, 1772-1782), to Max Ernst’s collage novel Une Semaine de Bonté (A Week of Goodness, 1934) and Valentine Penrose’ poem-collage Dons des Feminines (Gifts of the Feminine, 1951). This journey makes visible ways in which collage creates spaces that facilitate experiments with botanical taxonomies as metaphors for gender and sexuality and also a critique of the domestic setting conveyed through escapist dreams and travel to exotic locations.

These works were developed in residency at Stockwell Studios (former Annie McCall’s hospital) and are a tribute to the artist’s community that built the studios’ wild life garden, a constant source of inspiration, that is being now destroyed by the Lambeth Council to make space for luxury flats.