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Afterlife Geographies | The Past & Other Dreams
In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation.
Judie Bamber
For the uninitiated, approaching Judie Bamber’s work in the Richard Telles Gallery this summer might innocently begin as a contemplation...
Amalia Amaki/Liz Hampton
When the Feminist Women’s Health Center expanded, a library of books and video tapes on women’s health issues was made...
Arrested Childhood
For those who have forgotten the savage inner child, or the fierce manipulation of socialization and growing up, “Arrested Childhood”...
Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda: Labyrinths
“Labyrinths,” a multi-media installation by Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda, was created to raise awareness of the ways in which...
Uses of the Erotic: Sexuality and Difference in Lesbian Film and Video
This paper is an attempt to explore the ways in which the erotic, as a category and a practice of...
Erotics of the Image
Why would it be important, right now, to defend such ambiguity and indeterminacy? Why might I counterpose, to an agenda straightforward, “in your face” lesbian representation, an alternate erotics of surrogacy and displacement? There is no question that we are in a period of intense commodification of identity, with an attendant demand for extremely reductive and normalizing approaches to image-making.
I Seek to Steal the Sexual Body
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 In my persistent drive to locate images of my radical black...
Against Cultural Amnesia
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 Cultural amnesia seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Everyone, including...
Stock Us
Atlanta-based and globally-engaged, Art Papers serves the creative community and the culturally curious by expanding the dialogue around contemporary art...