woman's body · 28. agosto 2019

Pippa Bacca, born Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (1974 – 2008), was the niece of the late conceptual Italian artist Piero Manzoni. Bacca was a feminist artist who, together with a fellow artist, was hitchhiking internationally to promote world peace under the motto, "marriage between different peoples and nations", symbolically wearing a wedding dress during her trek. That faith inspired the Italian performance artist to embark on a pilgrimage of the Middle East, dressed as a “Peace...

13. agosto 2019

British artist Sarah Maple’s paintings, photographs, performances, mixed media, and video works tackle ideas of identity, whether of the religious, sexual, or gender variety. Her “Anti-Rape Cloak” gained her some notoriety last year, a work she created during a residency with the “elusive network of militant feminist art activists” The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance. The residency called for an “object of nuisance,” so she created the shapeless cloak and had herself photographed...

woman's body · 01. settembre 2018

Valerie Sharp, A delicate balance, performance Art Sketch by Valerie Sharp Essential Departures, Rosekill FarmRosendale NY, July 2016 Film credit: Jana Astanov, Photo credit: Ian Deleon