Selfcare #1
READING LIST
Ok my girls, here is a pretty fragmented list of the things I have been (re)reading, (re)viewing, (re)listening, (re)witnessing while making the pottery in this work. I want to account for sources and entangled strands of inspiration. I wish to show that I am not the only one speaking through this work. I wish to show its situatedness and partiality. My girls can add to this list, my viewers can’t. My girls can ask me questions and talk to me or each other, my viewers can’t.
My girls, I’ll send the digital files and links through email, so that you can all read/listen/watch/do whatever you choose on this list in interaction with your phones (that will be protected by babybottle Iphone-cases)
TEXTS
- The second sex/Le deuxieme sexe (either in English or in French) – Feminism – Simone de Beauvoir
- Killing Joy – Feminism – Sara Ahmed
- Technologies of the self – Selfcare – Michel Foucault
- Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter – thinking through objects/feminism – Karen Barad
- Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective – feminism – Donna J. Haraway
- Bad feminist – (intersectional) feminism – Roxane Gay
- Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, an essay in Phenomenology and Feminist theory – Feminism – Judith Butler
- Becoming Woman: or Sexual Difference Revisited – Feminism – Rosi Braidotti
- The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others – feminism – Donna Haraway
- The Evidence of Experience – feminism – Joan Scott
VIDEOS
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEAB3ekkvU Philosophy: Simone
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5vZaE8Ysc Art: Martha – semiotics of the kitchen
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7szDFwXyg&t=666s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ3dPwa2tI Art: Yoko Ono – “In this performance Ono sat on a stage and invited the audience to approach her and cut away her clothing, so it gradually fell away from her body. Challenging the neutrality of the relationship between viewer and art object, Ono presented a situation in which the viewer was implicated in the potentially aggressive act of unveiling the female body, which served historically as one such ‘neutral’ and anonymous subject for art. Emphasizing the reciprocal way in which viewers and subjects become objects or each other, Cut Piece also demonstrates how viewing without responsibility has the potential to harm or even destroy the object of perception.” Peggy Phelan in Art and Feminism
POP-CULTURE AND POPPY ARTICLES
- https://www.cataloguemagazine.com.au/feature/glitter-pink-and-iphone-selfies-how-were-reclaiming-girly-as-a-political-statement-2
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVDtwa0Pn_o
- http://o-mighty.com/products O-mighty (one of my old-time favorites on re-appropriation of girliness by a young feminist scene.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTMoWSo_ro Music: Lust in the movies- the long blondes
POTTERY
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela%C3%AFde_Alsop_Robineau
- Interview Beatrice Wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxv8k6g3i-A
- (I want to be very careful with this reference because I in no way want to claim that my situation is similar to that of Dave the Potter, one of my followers on Instagram said my work reminded him of Dave’s and after that moment the works definitely became to influence my decisions. Not mentioning Dave in this list, would not be OK in my opinion. However, I want to be very clear that I do not wish to claim or appropriate his work in any way. He was a much better artist than I will ever be.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake_(potter)
OTHER ACTS/THINGS TO DO
- Having a shot of Vodka
- Apply nail polish
- When in another act, put your phone in one of the phone holder <3
- It is allowed to listen to another, it is also allowed to enter into conversation or to have a discussion with one another
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