I haven’t got the book “Femmes of Power – Exploding Queer Femininities” yet, but I have read a review of the book, which I want to share with you. Read the review by Jess McCabe. “Femmes of Power” is by photographer Del LaGrace Volcano and Swedish cultural anthropologist Ulrika Dahl….
Category: Queer art
I went to a queer seminar about body, gender & identity and art videos by polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra in Aarhus, Denmark yesterday. Tina Ravn and Rune Gade talked about queer theory and Kozyra’s art videos which can be seen in Århus Kunstbygning until October 26 2008. Kozyra is a…
Chicago artist Amber Hawk Swanson explores a relationship with a life-size doll made in her own image. See the video and hear Amber talk about her feminist art project “To Have, To Hold and To Violate”.
Feminine Moments Presents Kelli Connell, USA
I have been corresponding with Danish artist Henriette Hellstern Kjøller about her life as a lesbian artist and her art latest projects. This is what she wrote. Henriette: To use my sexuality in my artistic work is the most natural thing for me as I my life as a lesbian is a…
From June 14 through September 21, 2008 the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen presents ‘Just Different’, an art exhibition about sexual desire, gender and identity construction in visual arts at the turn of the 21st century. It reveals an alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality and transsexuality. The Dutch title of the…
Catherine Allport
Traditionally art has had the role of being society’s eye opener. Art must make strong statements and spark a cultural debate. Debates about new issues can lead to change just like new technology, and thus art may lead to new trends and be an agent in the process of change in…
Amber Hawk Swanson recently spent a month at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami shooting new photography and video work for the exhibition, “To Have, To Hold, and To Violate: Amber and Doll” opening May 10, 7-11pm at Locust Projects in conjunction with the Wynwood Art District Second Saturday gallery walk and…
Lesbians have probably used the camera since it was invented in the 1830’ies. I have found some links to a few old self-portraits, which I want to share with Feminine Moments’ readers: Emma Jane Gay (1830-1919) with her back to the viewer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) smoking, drinking and showing her…
The closet is a metaphor for something hidden often undisclosed sexual orientation. We talk about a closeted person. I wonder if this term is as old as ‘the closet’ as a European furniture or if the Wikipedia researchers are right when they assume that expressions such as “in the closet”…
Feminine Moments presents Zanele Muholi from South Africa. ‘Her work is without precedent in South Africa, where there are very few instances of black women openly portraying female same-sex practices. As a gender and sexual rights activist, and as a photographer, she confronts the notion that lesbian practices are alien…
Christa Holka has suggested two artists to me (Thanks Christa!) and I am happy to present the following new lesbian art links: Jillian Peña, video artist, England: And Amber Hawk Swanson, performance and video artist, USA: You can also find these artists in Feminine Moments index of Lesbian Art Links. Happy browsing!
As a lesbian/ queer female artist your lifestyle flavours your art. No art works by lesbian or queer female artist can be defined as works of art that is of no interest at all to the queer community or an audience of female readers. I call all works of fine art made by lesbian or queer…