ART PAPERS Archives
Bump and Grind / Search and Destroy
This artist project originally appeared in ART PAPERS July/August 1992. Christian Walker was an Atlanta-based artist.
AIDS Art Action
This feature was originally published in ART PAPERS March /April 1989, Vol. 13, issue 2. “It is in the knowledge...
A Letter to Our Readers
We are launching a three-year strategic plan designed to celebrate the legacy of Art Papers, to mobilize the organization’s resources in service to the cultural community, and to thoughtfully arrive at meaningful and controlled conclusion of operations in 2026, at 50 years.
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...