| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A past as rich as our futures allow: a genealogy of feminist art in Canada / Janice Anderson -- "They aren't a boy or a girl, they are Mysterious": finding possible futures in loving animals and aliens / Karin Cope -- Fashioning race, gender, and desire: Cheryl Sim's Fitting Room and Mary Sui Yee Wong's Yellow Apparel / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- Queering abjection: a lesbian, feminist, and Canadian perspective / Jayne Wark -- The appearance of desire / Therese St-Gelais -- Resistance as resilience in the work of Rebecca Belmore / Ellyn Walker -- Desirous kinds of Indigenous futurity: on the possibilities of memorialization / Tanya Lukin Linklater -- "All that is Canadian": identity and belonging in the video and performance artwork of Camille Turner / Sheila Petty -- Mother me / Jenny Western -- Vancouver 1989: Kathleen Ritter in conversation with Lorna Brown / Anne Ramsden -- From mentorship to collaboration: art, feminism, and community in Winnipeg / Noni Brynjolson -- How to review art as a feminist and other speculative intents / Amy Fung -- How not to install indigenous art as a feminist / Cheyanne Turions -- A speculative manifesto for the Feminist Art Fair International: an interview with Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue of the Feminist Art Gallery / Amber Christensen, Lauren Fournier, and Daniella Sanader |
| Summary |
"In the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant - but often ignored - worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humour, and beauty. Correcting a glaring omission of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought, and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire. Essays by historians, artists, and curators present an overview of a range of artistic practices including performance, installation, video, textiles, and photography. Contributors address the desire for change through three central frames: how feminist art has significantly contributed to the complex understanding of gender as it intersects with sexuality and race; the necessary critique of patriarchy and institutions as they relate to colonization within the Canadian national-state; and the ways in which contemporary critiques are formed and expressed. The resulting collection addresses art through an activist lens to examine intersectional feminism, decolonization, and feminist institution building in a Canadian context. Heavily illustrated with representative works, Desire Change raises both the stakes and the concerns of contemporary feminist art, with an understanding that feminism is always and necessarily plural."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism and art -- Canada
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Women artists -- Canada.
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Art -- Canada -- History
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Feminist art criticism -- Canada
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Feminism in art.
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Women in art.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art
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Feminism and art
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Feminism in art
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Feminist art criticism
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Women artists
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Women in art
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Frauenkunst
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Heather M. (Heather Margaret), editor.
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Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, issuing body.
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| LC no. |
2017430603 |
| ISBN |
9780773550773 |
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0773550771 |
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