6. By the year 2000...our future student will be in touch with a continuous feminine creative history--often produced against impossible odds--from her present, to the Renaissance and beyond. In the year 2000 books and courses will only be called 'Man and His Image', 'Man and His Symbols', 'Art History of Man'.... Carolee Schneemann (1975)
7. Oriana Fox Our Bodies, Ourselves (2003) http://orianafox.com/video/
8. Oriana Fox - Artist’s Statement: I admit it, I want to be like and look like many of the women I see on TV and in the movies, yet I am highly critical of them. I want them to more accurately represent my self and the women I know and admire. I feel similarly about the feminist artists of the 1970s. I respect the way they sought to own their own image, to be defined from within instead of without, but the 70s was a long time ago, so I cannot fully embrace their ethos either. I have to find my own, and that is what I try to do in my practice. By taking varied sources from films and TV, I explore my own perceived reflection in the images I see day to day, re-enacting them and altering them to further define myself and my place in representation and the history of art.
9. “ Appropriating gestures, language and concepts from the history of feminist performance art the event highlighted the legacy of the field’s forerunners and commented on how their work has been reinterpreted, subverted or perhaps even ignored by contemporary women’s performance practice” Once More with Feeling, Tate Modern, 2009
10. Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, ARTISTS (L–R): Rose English and Sally Potter, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Colette Whiten, Mira Schendel, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Spero WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (MOCA, LA, 2007)
11. Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest. Installation: Ree MortonImage 9 of 24
14. The Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art - At the Brooklyn Museum, New York - opened in 2007 Mission statement: The Center's mission is to raise awareness of feminism's cultural contributions, to educate new generations about the meaning of feminist art, to maintain a dynamic and welcoming learning facility, and to present feminism in an approachable and relevant way
15. “ Its goal is not only to showcase a large sampling of contemporary feminist art from a global perspective but also to move beyond the specifically Western brand of feminism that has been perceived as the dominant voice of feminist and artistic practice since the early 1970s.” Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
20. Book published 1973 By collective of women OBOS (Our Bodies Our Selves) or Boston Women's Health Book Collective
21. Oriana Fox, Carrie and Amanda (digital collage, 2003
22. Oriana Fox, still from Our Bodies, Ourselves 2003 In Our Bodies, Ourselves I play all four characters of the popular TV show Sex and the City , exchanging contemporary dress and interior design for that of the 1970s. The film begins with my protagonist sewing a Judy Chicago-esque vaginal quilt and hoping that her new boyfriend will call.
26. Judy Chicago – early feminist works 1972-1974 – ‘central core’ imagery Through The Flower Elizabeth in honor of Elizabeth from the Great Ladies
27. Inside this enclave I observed the transition from ‘first-generation’ Feminism – improvisatory, rooted in the art world, aesthetically pluralist no matter how ‘gynocentric’, and surprisingly optimistic no matter how angry (change had to come and therefore must be possible) – to ‘second-generation’ Feminism – theoretical, rooted in the academy, generally anti-pluralist and sceptical of the ‘naive’ enthusiasms of some of their elders (such as goddess cults and guerrilla tactics) and basically pessimistic. (‘Late capitalism’ could be critiqued, but its amorphous power could never be challenged.) Robert Storr, ‘How as Feminism in the Art World Changed’? Frieze, special issue on Feminism, 2007
33. Oriana Fox, still from Our Bodies, Ourselves 2003 CARRIE (voiceover): Like every woman consumed with a relationship problem, I needed a project to keep my mind from obsessing and my hands from dialing his number.
42. Catherine Grant, ‘Reaching for the Moon: Replaying Feminist Art and Activism’: ‘ Fans’ of Feminism: ‘ The fan is a figure which seemed to allow for the passion, humour, aggression and attachment that I find in this contemporary artwork embracing both the ‘fanatical’ (the word fan derives from fanatic) and the dedicatedly scholarly.’