The Feminist Art Project…

The Feminist Art Project is an international collaborative initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual and political impact of women on the visual arts, art history and art practice, past and present.

The Feminist Art Project is a strategic intervention against the ongoing erasure of women from the cultural record.

The Feminist Art Project re-focuses public attention on the signal achievements of the Feminist Art Movement and shines a spotlight on current feminist art influences, trends and accomplishments.

How does The Feminist Art Project accomplish this?

The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) promotes diverse feminist art events, education and publications through its website calendar. Website visitors can find exhibitions, lectures, artist talks, classes, films and other art related activities in their area or to include in their travel plans. TFAPpreserves all calendar listings in the TFAP virtual archives and requests documentation from calendar participants to add to its physical archive.

TFAP facilitates regional networking and program development internationally and throughout the U.S. by linking visitors to TFAP Regional Coordinators. Regional coordinators and groups work with artists, teachers, writers, curators and venues to develop and promote feminist art events. Interested web-visitors can learn how to become involved with The Feminist Art Project in their own communities by contacting a coordinator in their region.

Does TFAP  promote individual artists on the web site?

TFAP does not promote the work of individual artists on its web site, but rather encourages artists to post their exhibitions, lectures performances and other art-related activities on the TFAP on-line calendar.

Who is eligible to be included on the TFAP event calendar?

The Feminist Art Project aims to effect permanent change by focusing on the impact of women artists and feminism on the art world, feminist content in art, feminist art practice and feminist analysis in art and art history and other cultural arenas. Artists, groups and presenters may post their national and international exhibitions, publications and programs that serve this mission on the calendar. All visual art media are eligible for inclusion.

Are there any fees?

There are no fees of any kind to use or contribute to the calendar or to download TFAP FARE.

How do I list my event or publication on the TFAP calendar?

To post on the TFAP calendar of events, go to LIST AN EVENT and follow the directions. Please do not send listings via email to The Feminist Art Project. Please allow one week for posting.

Who is The Feminist Art Project?

The Feminist Art Project brings together feminist artists, curators, authors and art critics, teachers and other art and museum professionals across cultural backgrounds, generations and widespread locations to refocus public attention on the significant achievements of women artists and the Feminist Art Movement. TFAP’s policies and initiatives are overseen by its National Coordinating Committee. TFAP Regional Coordinators across the globe are spearheading activities in their regions. TFAP’s Program Partners are committed to increasing the visibility of feminist art and to promote The Feminist Art Project.

SisterSole x

An interview with artist Nicola Hunter! By Theatre Bristol…

What inspired you to become an artist?

I have always been an artist, being an artist has helped me to survive and to make sense of the world. I remember in the chaos of growing up writing poems and drawing my life. I began as a painter and my paintings would take years, a real physical affair. I used all parts of my body and eventually felt compelled to climb inside of them and from there began to use my body as site and soon after began to find ways to use my body as material.

Why have you returned to live performance for this project?

It was never a conscious decision to leave performance behind, it just so happened that my circumstances led me down that path. I became a mother of 2 and then not long after I became a full time single mother (and had to adjust to the challenges and responsibilities of parenting alone and as a woman and a mother in a patriarchal society there are many!) Every piece of work that I have created over the last 10 years has been brought into the world as necessity for me, it is a release of emotion that I could not have articulated in any other way than using the visual language that I have established over the past decade.

Tell us about the show and what it is about for you.

Lost Bodies is an incredibly personal piece of work, it is about the stages and waves of grief and each time I create the work I go on an authentic journey with it. I have Alison Brierley and Sarah Glass as co-performers who are also journeying with me through our multi-layered collaboration. Alison is my spiritual guide; she prepares the space for transformation, leads me through it and then closes the portal. Sarah Glass and I designed and developed the sound score, which enables me to follow the correct path. Together we take our witnesses on a sensory adventure.

This piece is about the old me and the new me. It is about the journey that I went on to transition and to shed a skin. The journey into the new began with a project that I began in 2014 called Raising the Skirt (www.raisingtheskirt.com) and through this howling, naked, connecting with the earth and my subconscious, listening deeply to my intuition and making connections with some fierce and wonderful humans, the project ignited my fire again. It was in the second year of the project that I met Alison and we connected on a very deep level. Drumming is a huge element of transcendental ritual and the drum we use is hand made by Alison, and the vibrations and sound from the drum is another way to connect with the audience.
My work is always built on personal experience, this piece in particular is about a time my life where I felt very separate to my body, the piece is about finding my voice and connecting with my gut instincts – and in doing so I find my well buried wild. However, it is important to me that I do not open old wounds and so each piece is made for the eyes and the belly of the beholder, I hope that I offer enough layers in the work so that each person involved in the work has enough to want to investigate and go on the journey with me.

What do you hope the audience will experience during the performance?

I cannot expect nor demand that an audience take something away, or be specific about the kind of experience that one should have. However, if people find themselves feeling present, walk away with questions and/or are moved in some way then I am happy.

Why is it important for you to share this work?

This isn’t just a performance, this is a journey. I invite the audience to not only witness the transformation but to become part of it. This piece is for everyone that has ever felt so stripped of themselves, sitting inside their pupa, just waiting for that time to break out and show their wings.

This is a piece of work that says fuck you to the breakers, because what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

A thoroughly enjoyable interview with artist Nicola Hunter, ahead of her shows this coming weekend at ‘Theatre Bristol’. Wishing her all the best with her performances!

SisterSole x

 

Pretty/Dirty exhibition with Marilyn Minter.

 

 

 

Bachelor Girl.

 

 

 

 

 

‘An Art Made of Trust, Vulnerability and connection’ Marina Abramovic.

This woman needs no introduction… Marina Abramovic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4so_Z9a_u0

SisterSole x

“We don’t have any artists today, they don’t have any vision what so ever!” Vivienne Westwood.

Naturally, I have given much thought to the subject of ‘art’ and the role it plays in relation to ‘culture’. Also, considering the social, economic and political landscape as well as issues such as climate change and that of the environment. It is for this …