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Archiving Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

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Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 2 | published by The New School, Nyc. USA, 2010

Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Cvetkovich discusses the problems of continuity/discontinuity across feminist generations. What turns have we taken, and how do we assess those now? Prof. Cvetkovich shares her experience in archiving Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. She also presents works by a new generation of lesbian feminist artists who embraces the 70s sisterhood and radical lesbian femininsm; among others works by Allyson Mitchell, Tammy Ray Carland, Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Angela Jimenez, and points out that art can be an innovative form of public archiving.

Civil Partnership event at the Tate, 2012

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Curating Feminist and Queer Art

The above video presents the highlights of the Civil Partnership Event at Tate in 2012. The symposium was held as part of the Leverhulme funded project Transnational perspectives on women’s art, feminism and curating. “Reflecting on the politics and practices of queer and feminist art curating, this symposium hosted presentations from an international line-up of artists, curators and critics to address a set of key questions: how do feminist and queer projects emerge as art exhibitions?”

Among the speakers were queer/LGBTQ curators Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Michael Petry, Matt Smith and Pawel Leszkowicz, who are helping to nurture, feed and cultivate a new tradition of presenting queer subject matter at art museums and national collections.

Time Sensitive

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Edited by: Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Alexis Mitchell and Chase Joynt

Call for Submissions
Inspired by the Toronto-revival of the woman-made film and video collection ‘Cinenova’ in February 2012, TIME SENSITIVE is the landmark publication of the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG, based in Toronto, Canada). The re-emergence of historical feminist film and video into contemporary cultural environments has afforded new and radical opportunities for investigation and inquiry. As such, TIME SENSITIVE seeks to (re)animate texts, issues, politics and debates in the context of our contemporary moment. We question what it means to revive historical queer and feminist work into the present. What can theorizing and exploring a feminist archive reveal / illuminate / contextualize / position?

FAG is seeking submissions from artists, writers, activists and critical thinkers on topics related to the notion of a feminist archive. Submissions can be creative texts, (wo)manifestos, political texts and/or academic essays.

Potential themes and topics to consider:
• Community action and organizing
• Representations of trans subjectivities
• Censorship
• Aesthetics
• Theories of documentary
• Politics of representation
• The role of nostalgia and affect
• Writings on particular feminist film/video work
• The politics/role/deterioration of the archive
• Re-thinking historical texts in the context of globalization and homonationalism
• Transnational activism
• The archive and accessibility

TIME SENSITIVE will be curated and edited by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue of the Feminist Art Gallery in collaboration with Toronto-based media artists and scholars Alexis Mitchell and Chase Joynt.

Please submit a 300-400 word abstract and/or submission pitch to
joyntmitchell@gmail.com by June 1, 2012.
Editors are happy to consult with applicants on potential project ideas prior to the deadline.

Related Link
Read more about Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue and the community around the FAG gallery:
Feminist Art Gallery – Finally, an art gallery that celebrates feminist art and artists. By Kate-Christine Miller

No More Potlucks, a Canadian Print-on-demand Journal of Art, Politics and Culture

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Hello and Happy New Year!

So excited to share two new interviews – on feminism, art, porn, collaboration, and representation – with artists A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns in the current issue of No More Potlucks. It’s available online and print-on-demand.

Best wishes for a healthy, happy, productive 2012,

Anthea Black

The Cover of No More Potlucks, Issue 19NOMOREPOTLUCKS no. 19, Issue jan - fev. 2012.
Online and print-on-demand journal of art, politics and culture. (Cover right)

Contents:
AIDS ACTION NOW: FUCK POSITIVE WOMEN
Allyson Mitchell, Jessica Whitbread & Alex McClelland

Riding the Wet, Wet Wave: An Interview with A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner on Community Action Center Anthea Black

Trending Homonationalism
Natalie Kouri-Towe

Elisha Lim and Rae Spoon: Talking Shop

The Women Tell Their Stories, and other poems
Ching-In Chen

“Whether thatʼs audio art or sound art, honestly I would say I couldn’t care less”: A conversation with Nancy Tobin
Owen Chapman

Switching Power: An Interview with A.L. Steiner
Anthea Black

Switching Power

Claude Cahun
Eloisa Aquino

Cripping Community: New Meanings of Disability and Community
Eliza Chandler

99 problems
@WhiteLezProblems

« Issue de secours : à vous les militants »
Adleen Crapo

Production still by A.L. Steiner

Production still by A.L. Steiner

Related Links
nomorepotlucks.org
Order your print copy: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/nomorepotlucks

Entzaubert 2011

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Rosie Bike writes

hey all
The amazing diy-queer non-commercial film-festival is almost here! For the fifth time around Entzaubert is coming to Schwarzer Kanal,
from Thursday 07.07- Sunday 10.07 and this time with a beautiful new d.i.y.cinema!
Check out the program: http://entzaubert.blogsport.de/programm-2011/

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I Have Had A Look At The Enzaubert Film Programme...
There are several films by women filmmakers being presented by the Entzaubert filmfest 2011. Unfortunately, I do not know much about these filmmakers, so I’ll just invite you to look at the programme (link above) and instead highlight one of the workshops:

July 8, 2011 at 13:00
Workshop: How to make a Non/Low Budget Movie

Short Films by Allyson Mitchell
However I have spotted one artist, whom I know - Canadian sculptor and lesbian Allyson Mitchell.
Two videos by Allyson Mitchell, whose Deep Lez art project and installation I have previously mentioned at this artblog, will be screened at Enzaubert : July 8, 2011 at 18:00 as a part of  ’Behind Bars’ you can see 'Pink-eyed Pet' by Allyson Mitchell (2002, 3min; English) – ‘Love can cause infections even topical treatments won’t cure’. And on July  9, 2011 at 18:30 as a part of ‘Herstories and other Kings’ 'My Life in 5 minutes'  by Allyson Mitchell (2000, 6min; English) will be screened.  The autobiopic “My Life in 5 Minutes” tells a life story with a bittersweet song, animation and family snaps. Some photos hold painful or awkward members for the artist; through computer animation, she enlarges her own eyes to blink the pain away.