Desire change : contemporary feminist art in Canada /
In the resistance to the violence of gender-based oppression, vibrant, but often ignored, worlds have emerged, full of nuance, humor and beauty. Correcting a glaring omission of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thou...
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Montreal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / Shawna Dempsey and Dana Kletke
- Introduction / Heather Davis. 1 A past as rich as our futures allow: a genealogy of feminist art in Canada / Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson. Desire: intersections of sexuality, gender, race: proposition for twenty-first-century feminism 1: on sex, gender, and feminism : 2 "They aren't a boy or a girl, they are mysterious": finding possible futures in loving animals and aliens / Karin Copy
- Fashioning race, gender, and desire: Cheryl Sim's Fitting Room and Mary Sui Wong's Yellow Apparel / Alice Ming Wai Jim
- 4 Queering abjection: a lesbian, feminist, and Canadian perspective / Jayne Wark
- 5 The appearance of desire / Thérèse St-Gelais, translated by Sue Stewart. Desiring change: decolonization: proposition 2: on colonial patriarchy and matriarchal decolonization : 6 Resistance as resilience in the work of Rebecca Belmore / Ellyn Walker
- 7 Desirous kinds of indigenous futurity: on the possibilities of memorialization / Tanya Lukin Linklater
- beyond nationhood: a collaborative text / Leah Decter, Ayumi Goto, and Peter Morin
- 8 "All that is Canadian": identity and belonging in the video and performance artwork of Camille Turner / Sheila Petty
- 9 Mother me / Jenny Western. Forms of desire: institutional critique and feminist praxis: proposition 3: on institutional critique : 10 Vancouver 1989: Kathleen Ritter in conversation with Lorna Brown, Allyson Clay, Marian Penner Bancroft, Kathy Slade, Jin-me Yoon, and Anne Ramsden
- 11 From mentorship to collaboration: art, feminism, and community in Winnepeg / Noni Bryn
- 12 How to review art as a feminist and other speculative intents / Amy Fung
- 13 how not to install indigenous art as a feminist / Cheyanne Turions
- 14 A speculative manifesto for the feminist art fair international: an interview with Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue of the Feminist Art Gallery / Amber Christensen, Lauren Fournier, and Daniella Sanader. Appendix: there is no feminist (a love letter), or, a working chronology of feminist art infrastructures in Canada / Gina Badger
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Index.