Issue 35-3/ABOLITION
21 Mar 2012, Posted in Blog, 0 Comments
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS On the horizon of feminist struggle, what does abolition mean as a radical rhetorical position and as a material goal or praxis? Departing from communization theory’s call to abolish gender (along with class) as a necessary measure of destroying the capitalist class relation, how does the figure of abolition — a word perhaps most often used today to advance the abolition of prisons, and before that, slavery, and enduringly, colonialism — restructure the struggle and praxis of feminisms?
Continue Reading...From the Moon to the Belly
16 Mar 2012, Posted in Artist Projects, Current, 1 Comments
From the Moon to the Belly is a seven-card limited edition digital collage postcard project and socio-cultural exchange between Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Maria Hupfield.
Continue Reading...Current Issue: PERFORMING POLITICS
23 Jun 2011, Posted in Blog, 0 Comments
FUSE is proud to announce our summer issue, “Performing Politics”! FUSE is 35 this year, and we’re celebrating by revisiting the work of seventeen outstanding thinkers and makers, spanning three decades. Through eight features, interviews and reports plus six artist’s projects, we explore the ways that solidarity enables political action.
Continue Reading...The Present Nature of Things: Suzanne Lacy’s Leaving Art
29 Dec 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 0 Comments
In a conversation with Lucy Lippard in 1985, Suzanne Lacy spoke of the history of women’s labor unions making use of communal activities such as pageants, dinner parties, gift exchanges and birthday celebrations as a means to build solidarity amongst women. Art and activism have a longstanding overlapping history. In the mid-80s, Suzanne Lacy began retroactively framing the large-scale performances she had been undertaking since the early 70s within the tradition of pageantry. Pageants in the early part of the 20th century were a deeply community-oriented and non-commercial form of entertainment: they were often massive productions involving a cast of hundreds of volunteers in performances of theatre, dance and music.
Continue Reading...Only Hope was Left: Inside Pandora’s Box
25 Sep 2010, Posted in Art Reviews, 0 Comments
The myth of Pandora presents a portrait of woman as a beautiful evil who, consumed by her own curiosity, opens a jar and unleashes all of the ills of society onto the world, only to close the lid before Hope can escape. Pandora’s Box, a touring exhibition curated by Dunlop Art Gallery’s Director/Curator Amanda Cachia, proposes that there is not one, but several modes through which this enduring parable can be reclaimed as a powerful feminist allegory. Cachia seeks to address the pluralities that contribute to present-day conceptions and enactments of feminism, featuring artists who “add diverse, poignant, independent and intersubjective voices to an evolving polylogue of what it means to be female.”
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