via DUST magazine
…the female narcissist is dangerous to patriarchy because she obviates the desiring male subject (loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her desirability from him). in the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism (such as wilke’s), the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. already presuming her desirability, wilke obviates the modernist critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic “value.
amelia jones, body art: performing the subject (via karaj)
(via snprickett)
Indian Act
2000-03
by Nadia Myre“After Myre printed a copy of Canada’s Indian Act, the law governing the lives of First Nations peoples, she enlisted over 200 friends and strangers to assist her in beading over the 56 pages in rows of red and white, obscuring and neutralizing the text of this controversial and widely debated law.”
(via andsoimissedmychance)
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971. Lithograph.
via MoMA
Went to see TRAFFIC: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980 at the AGA yesterday. You should too.
