Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art.
New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the appropriation of earlier art historical references; and the use of so-called abject and everyday materials. New York New Wave investigates the relevance of earlier feminist practice for this 'new' generation, asking: Does gender difference still play a role in today's practice? How can younger women artists embrace a radical political ideology and yet remain market friendly? How far have these artists diverged from the established feminist "tradition"? Artists discussed include: Firelei Baez, EV Day, Ruby LaToya Fraser, Diana Al-Hadid, K8 Hardy, Valerie Hegarty, Cindy Hinant, Dawn Kasper, Anya Kielar, Liz Magic Laser, Narcissister, Alix Pearlstein, Aurel Schmidt, AL Steiner and W.A.G.E.
In diesem Katalog wird erstmals eine umfassende Rückschau auf die bahnbrechenden Aktivitäten von E. A. T. – Experiments in Art and Technology gehalten, einem einzigartigen Verbund von Ingenieuren, Künstlern und Künstlerinnen, die in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren Geschichte geschrieben haben. Künstler wie Robert Rauschenberg und Robert Whitman taten sich mit Billy Klüver, dem visionären Techniker der Bell Telephone Laboratories, sowie seinem Kollegen Fred Waldhauer zu dieser wegweisenden Initiative zusammen, um in einer beispiellosen Zusammenarbeit Kunstwerke zu realisieren, in denen die neuesten technischen Möglichkeiten zum Einsatz kamen.