Everyone Needs Feminism

 

Print by Meredith Stern

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups, or any group, defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling-class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.”

-bell hooks 

in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

"A Visual Habitat for Narratives: An Interview with Artist Joann Harrah" in Anti-Heroin Chic

To read the interview click here.

Duane Michals: "Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty" 1998

Duane Michals, Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 19.8×24.7 cm (ea), 1998

Handwriting below photographs:

• “Odette can never be sure with any certainty which reflection of herself she will see in the mirror.”
• "The act of looking in the mirror affects what the image will be."
• “Uncertainty permits anything and everything”.

Werner Heisenberg, The Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Mechanics, from the American Institute of Physics:

http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm

I'm not speaking in hyperbole when I say I've been a fan of Duane Michals for a long time. I

David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery

I want to recommend going to see David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery before it closes on March 8. I've kept Altmejd's work on my radar for awhile.  While this current exhibition, called Juices, is at once striking and "cool", giving it further thoughtful attention is illuminating and worthwhile.

The largest piece in the show is 11 feet tall and spans a space 21 x 24 ft.  It's big. I'm glad I took my time studying the exhibition, because the longer I stayed and went back to look at different areas a second and third time, the more I was able to discern narrative connections within the piece. While Altmejd's craftsmanship is often raw and crude with reason (because life gets sloppy), the narrative is intricate and woven deeply.

David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle
photo by Lance Brewer courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Stories about fruit juice, body juice and art juice, travel throughout a three-dimensional