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Some time ago, I was introduced to the work of Sonya Clark. It encapsulates the truth, which resides in our bodies. Hair, for example, contains information about our biology that we often neglect or forget. Our predispositions, if you believe they exist are engrained in every part of the body. Clark explores hair in such a […]
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Art / Body Art / Body Image / contemporary art / feminism / Feminist Art / Hair / human condition / re-appropriation / Sculpture / Sonya Clark / Textiles / visual culture¶¶¶¶¶
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and watched Rottenberg’s new work entitled, Squeeze (2010). I titled part of my entry as ‘Interdependence’ because, coincidentially, I’ve been reading about interdepedence with others (and, even with inantimate objects) through a Buddhist lens and trying to incorporate that awareness within a meditative […]
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Body Image / consumerism / feminism / Feminist Art / Film / Gesture / Interdependence / Labor / Manufacturing / Mika Rottenberg / repetition / SFMOMA / Squeeze / Video / Video Installation / Whitney Biennele / Women’s Studies¶¶¶¶¶
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 