I Hate Being Fat, Please Eat Me, 2002. Piece of a set of plates in printed porcelain.
August 17th, 2007 // by Cristiana Pena
Ana Pérez-Quiroga is a Portuguese contemporary artist working and
living in Lisboa. In 2002 she made her first solo exhibition “Tell Me
You Love Me”, at Filomena Soares Gallery and, since then she has been
regularly exhibiting her work in Portugal and Spain.
Ana works with different media such as photography, installations,
knitting or pottery and explores a wide range of subjects from love to
artistic discourses/institutions. At the age of 47, Ana is still
looking for her place in the Portuguese art scene.
Due to her heterogeneous academic background that comprises History,
Design and Sculpture studies, Ana’s work deals with ideological,
formal, aesthetic and ethic problems of artistic production. She
constructs her critical views about these issues by displacing ordinary
or personal objects from the real world into the artistic discourses
and practices.
Short film 'DysEnchanted' by Terri Edda Miller (left) in 8 minutes presents seven storybook characters: Cinderella, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Alice In Wonderland, Dorothy and Little Red Riding Hood. Then Clara, a New Jersey divorcee joins the group and discovers that life is no fairy tale.
Film was screened at Sundance 2004. Dysenchanted.com, IMDB, YouTube.
July 25th,
2007 There are three of them – one at the Women's
Infoteque, one at the Women's Studies, and the one by the name Lezbib, owned by
Kontra. Find out where they are, when they are open, what do they offer, and
how to contact them.
July 25th,
2007 // by Milana Romić Feminist literary criticism and
literary practice (feminist theory) is not a unique
discipline, because it belongs to the new literary-scientific
disciplines, with complex thinking and interwork of methods as their
main feature. It is not possible to offer a definition due to
multiple divisions and definitions of the feminist literary criticism
and literary practice, that is, their number is reciprocal to the
number of theoreticians and literary authors who study it, which
proves its versatility and interdisciplinarity. This theoretical
practice is composed of different political preferences and
conflicting aesthetics. It was formed during the 1970's in order to
offer a new specific interpretation of a growing number of women's
texts, but also to explore the invisible tradition of women's
literary, philosophical and cultural creation.
Friday, May 31st,
2007 // by Maja Hrgović
I found out about
the Stephen Lupino’s exhibition at the Modern gallery “Josip
Račić” from a colleague at work. The pretty neutral title,
“Wonderful creatures”, did not reveal much about the thematic
framework nor the content of the exhibition. Lupino is not among the
artists I hold in high esteem, nor do I believe that his photographic
work could hold any pleasant surprises for me: his photoshop-edited
female nudes (defined by their commercial value, that of getting
published in the Playboy magazine) are very cheap and corny, and they
cannot, even by a long shot, be described as surprising, fresh, nor
artistic. The thing that made me look more closely at the invitation
was my colleague’s reaction to it…
May 13th 2007 Before Marija
Šerifović won the Beovision song contest, everybody in Serbia were
saying that there is no chance that some “dyke” and a “Gypsy-girl
who looks like a guy” will get to represent them at the Eurovision
song contest, and that no one in Serbia would vote for her. The
general manager of the Serbian National TV (RTS), Aleksandar Tijanić
(who claims today that RTS will provide the funds to award Marija the
same way the athletes get awarded for special achievements) even
refused to approve the participation of the song at the contest if
Marija’s manager accompanies her, which was something she insisted
on. In the end he gave in, but he refused to approve the funds for
making the video for the song, writes Goran Miletić in his blog at
B92...
May 23rd 2007 // by Krešimira Gojanović
The word “witch”
bears many negative connotations in our culture. This is indicative
of the fear and reluctance of the patriarchal understanding of the
world to accept, and furthermore, incorporate the archetype of a
strong, creative and intelligent woman - a woman who, in a self-aware
and emancipated manner, like the male “creators”, creates magical
spiritual worlds according to her own free will and design. To be
able to understand the primal causes of this fear, we have to look
deeper into the past, into the ancient, pre-Christian cultures. Those
cultures worshipped female divinities, often in the form of a
tri-fold goddess who symbolized the three aspects of woman and of
nature, with which the woman was equated with.
May 18th,
2007 // by Darija Žilić In the novel
„Božanska glad“ (Divine Hunger) by Slavenka Drakulić, the
heroine meets one handsome and exotic Joao Amado at a library.
Introducing himself, he tells her that he has written one
semi-successful novel, that he is currently writing a history book
about the natives of the Amazon area, but that he also works as an
editor in a publishing company because “who could possibly make a
living as a writer in a such a poor country as Brazil.“ Then he
asks her if she writes as well. At first, her answer is “no, no“,
but then she says: “I write essays, essays mostly…"
November 1st,
2006 The exhibition of
self-portraits by the painter Alenka Spacal opens with a performance
during which the author prepares a rope on which the laundry is to be
hung out to dry. And through the self-ironising of the palette of
various incarnations of her character, done with oil on kitchen
cloths, the artist uses the domestic atmosphere (achieved through
hanging out the laundry in an art gallery) to bring into focus the
relation between the private domain and the public one, as well as
between the personal and the political. Alenka Spacal uses a
sort of autobiographical method to establish her sovereignity thus
raising her voice against the turning the cliché role of the
woman as the “other” into an objective one.
Short film 'DysEnchanted' by Terri Edda Miller (left) in 8 minutes presents seven storybook characters: Cinderella, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Alice In Wonderland, Dorothy and Little Red Riding Hood. Then Clara, a New Jersey divorcee joins the group and discovers that life is no fairy tale. 
May 13th 2007 
May 23rd 2007 // by Krešimira Gojanović
November 1st,
2006
