Dear all,
picking up on this thread of gender - Could contributors say something about their experiences of gender balance/equality in their creative networks (as opposed to social networking)? Where are we now?
One challenge I am aware of relates to the needs of young children - sometimes this imposes a certain, shall we say, division of labour.
Its great to imagine child rearing as a fluid part of creative adult lives - and sometimes it is - but in my experience, children need their own space(s), attention, routine, peer groups. And equally the demands of a project can exclude children. Consequently, domestic creative partnerships have to decide how to share parental/artistic duties.
I encounter lots of women involved in both arts and academia. Most of my 'bosses' are women. I encounter many less men openly or visibly suspicious or hostile to women. And they rather stand out when they appear.
Is it is ok/possible to openly have little time for someone's work or approach regardless of gender, age, nationality, etc. and not be branded a chauvinist etc.?
My aspiration is that 'the network' - arising for me explicitly each year for Art's Birthday - can be fully inclusive. I find that the idea already works 'magnetically' - attracting some, repelling others.
Bottom line for me: the network is formed through self-election. (But that's not to say that we can't have invitation based discussion groups.)
B
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From: Dorothee Richter <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2013, 19:54
Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] performance and "network"
Dear All, I would like to come back to Fluxus and gender, we finalized the
chapter in our Fluxus Film today: I must say, as always things are
complicated, Carolee Schneemann critzied in a famous poetry the way the
Fluxus (male) artists were behaving and excluding her work and her,
Maciunas had obviously some problems with the strong women artists Carolee
and Charlotte Moorman, but he invited many japanese women artists to join,
with yoko Ono he had a fight over the realization of a piece for now here
in 1971. ON the other hand did many fluxus artists made an interesting
contribution on the flux in gender issues, Maciuans celebrated his wedding
with cross dressing events and many other performances, Geoffrey Hendricks
and Bici Hendircks performed their flux divorce, Maciunas himself made
photos of his cross dressing experiences and so on, homosexuality was a
topic, some men did engage a lot more then usual into the upbringing of
the children Š. So Fluxus provided a lot of different approaches towards
issues around sexuality but the group was founded on a male community.
Alison Knowles got inside through her husband Dick Higgins as the fist
women to be connected to fluxusŠ. Therefore, but not only therefor I am
very reluctant to put any fluxus artist again into the postion of a male
genius, even if art history and art market usually tends to reestablish
these roles so easily. This we should all keep in mind - and think about
the revolutionary impetus of Fluxus and how this could be re interpreted
nowadays. - In a way it should go way beyond establishing networks, the
political drive (ieven if Fluxus artists never agreed on it) was an
important part of the agenda. So let's talk about agency and access more,
best, Dorothee
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Am 06.02.13 20:27 schrieb "Johannes Birringer" unter
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>dear all
>
>
>well, this is the zen half month, and soon the new year will start,
>but as the discussion was coming quickly to penetrating close ups of
>Robert Filliou (? had not heard of before) and a so-called 'eternal
>network'
>and fluxus, I suddenly remembered that I was posting here, on January 13
>& 15, on a fluxus performance by Patterson, at CAM Houston, in the
>context of asking
>about curatorial politics and policies regarding performance's relation
>to new media and the network....... and the then-discussion stopped dead
>in its tracks
>and never continued.
>
>This has happened before, and so gather it was a coincidence, and had
>nothing to do with boring folks on this list with questions coming from
>performance pesrepctive, rather
>than new media art?
>
>
>respectfully
>
>Johannes Birringer
>dap-lab, londo
>
>PS keep them coming, the Zen sayings, Ken.
>________________________________________
>From: Curating digital art -
>
>Clive schreibt
>I am pretty well conditioned not to write about white, male, heterosexual
>artists or theorists - it must be this Fluxus stuff that is causing me to
>fall off the wagon?
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