Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at University of Wolverhampton Screen School warmly invites you to the following online event (all welcome)
→ “Miss Tampon Liberty: Jay Critchley and ‘Environmenstrual’ Art since 1970” // Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik (University of Aberdeen)
November 17 2021, 5-6.15pm (British Standard Time): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/miss-tampon-liberty-jay-critchley-and-environmenstrual-art-since-1970-tickets-160960937497
In the 1970s and 80s, when menstruation was generally considered taboo, artist Jay Critchley made art out of discarded plastic tampon applicators washed up and collected on local beaches. With no idea what the items were used for, Critchley could not have known that his curiosity would lead to a decades-long quest to understand and improve issues surrounding menstrual product waste. Critchley did not succeed legislatively, but his artworks document a history of protest through creativity and solidarity nonetheless. It is a timely story that predates the current interest in menstrual environmentalism by decades, linking the contemporary movement to a history of collective action against marine debris, consumer boycott, and protest against corporations. Based on interviews with the artist and visual analysis of his archive, this paper presents Critchley’s ‘environmenstrual’ works in an art historical light for the first time.
Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik is Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art History at the University of Aberdeen. She is the Co-PI of the Menstruation Research Network UK (https://menstruationresearchnetwork.co.uk/). Her first book, Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation, is out with UCL Press in 2022, and her second book, The Painters Are In: An Art History of Menstruation, will be out with McGill Queen’s University Press in 2024.
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