Feminism(s) and Space: Approaches to Catalan Contemporary Visual and Performance Art
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Dec 13, 2023
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feminism, space, Eulàlia Valldosera, Olga Diego, Alicia Framis
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This article explores the ways in which space, understood as a place where dominant (hetero)normative values are enforced and visual regimes unfold, is resignified in the work of three contemporary Catalan artists: Eulàlia Valldosera, Olga Diego and Alicia Framis. The text sets the scene back in the North America of the 1960s and the emergence of feminist art to move then to the Spanish and Catalan contexts, exploring the initial reluctance in its reception, as well as its ghostly traces, discontinuities and absences. A selection of photographic series, installations and performances by these artists is then analysed in order to show how their feminist spatial interventions deconstruct systems of power. My analysis draws on a range of feminist theories, including Laura Mulvey’s notion of the male gaze, Paul B. Preciado’s analysis of the production of gender and sexual identity and Elisabeth Wilson’s study of the gendering of urban spaces.
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Bru-Dominguez, E. (2023). Feminism(s) and Space: Approaches to Catalan Contemporary Visual and Performance Art. Asparkía. Investigació Feminista, (43), 37–61. https://doi.org/10.6035/asparkia.7551
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Enguita Mayo, Nuria, Marí, Bartomeu and Valldosera, Eulàlia. (2000). Conversation. In Eulàlia Valldosera. Works 1990-2000 (pp. 19-44). Witte de With.
Gasol, Daniel and Valldosera, Eulàlia. (2010). Entrevista a Eulàlia Valldosera – Daniel Gasol. http://salonkritik.net/09-10/2010/06.
Jaén Urban, Gaspar. (2014). Olga Diego y el cuerpo : Autorretratos en un paisaje. In Bru-Dominguez, Eva and Jaén Urban, Gaspar. (Eds.), Olga Diego: Transgressive Arquitecture (pp. 3-8). Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartografía, Universidad de Alicante.
Jones, Amelia. (2012). Seeing Differently: a History and Theory Identification and the Visual Arts. Routledge.
Lanceta, Teresa. (2014) Olga Diego y el Aire. In Bru-Dominguez, Eva and Jaén Urban, Gaspar. (Eds.), Olga Diego: Transgressive Arquitecture (pp. 11-12). Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartografía, Universidad de Alicante.
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López Páez, Montserrat. (2017). Constructiones y performances: las prendas de Alicia Framis. In Estúdio, artistas sobre oultras obras, 19, 69-78.
Mayayo, Patricia. (2013). Imaginando nuevas genealogías. Una mirada feminista a la historiografía del arte español contemporáneo. In Aliaga, Juan Vicente and Mayayo, Patricia (Eds.), Genealogías feministas en el arte español: 1960-2010 (pp. 19-50). This Side Up.
Marí, Bartomeu (2009). Actions, objects and devices in the oeuvre of Eulalia Valldosera. In Dependences (pp. 105-115). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Mader, Rachel. (2008). Can Beauty beat Violence ? Alicia Framis, Emmanuelle Antille and Hikaru Miyakawa. In n.paradoxa 21, pp. 76-84. https://www.ktpress.co.uk/nparadoxa-volume-details.asp?volumeid=21
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Nead, Lynda. (2001). The Female Nude. Art, Obscenity and Sexuality. Routledge.
Plate, Liedeke and Rommes, Els. (2007). SafeCitySpace: women’s interventions in urban and virual space. In Journal of Romance Studies. 7:1, 21-38.
Pollock, Griselda. (1999) Differencing the Cannon: Feminism and the Writing of Art’s Histories. Routledge.
Preciado, Beatriz. (2008). Testo Yonqui. Espasa Libros, S.L.U.
Stratten, Jon. (2015). Playing the Jew: anti-Semitism and football in the twenty-first century. In Jewish Culture and History, 16 :3, 293-311.
Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. (1969). Manifesto! Maintenance Art. Proposal for an Exhibition. ‘CARE’ https://queensmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969.pdf.
Villaespesa, Mar. (2009). Interrupt our calculations and begin again at zero. In Dependences (pp. 116-137). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Wilson, Elisabeth. (1992). The Sphinx in the City. University of California Press.