Conversations on Art and Feminism
ed. by Oksana Briukhovetska and Lesia Kulchynska ; interviews with Valentyna Petrova, Dana Kavelina, ORLAN, Martha Rosler ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Oksana Briukhovetska, Lesia Kulchynska
- Publication, year
- Kyiv ; Paris : Visual Culture Research Center : European Alternatives, 2019
- Scope
- 280 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9786175021293
The idea of conducting a study through personal conversations arose during our participation in the Tandem Ukraine program, where our French partner was Ségolène Pruvot from the organization European Alternatives. At the time we had started doing feminist projects at the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), which was something new. We were investigating the Ukrainian art scene, especially the part that had become politically active following the Orange Revolution. Critical art, born out of the protest movement, responded to reality, political changes and social problems. These artists began rethinking the gender hierarchy that has long been dominant (and still is) in Ukrainian art. The feminist narrative is articulated in Ukrainian art after the 2010s, in part due to the influence of activist groups. Beginning in 2008, the unusual and often ambiguous actions of FEMEN would shake up Ukraine’s media space. The possibility (or impossibility) of using the female body as a symbol of protest was raised as an issue in public discourse.
- Person as subject
- Valentyna Petrova, Dana Kavelina, ORLAN, Martha Rosler ...[et al.]
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 6: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. Biographies
