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Ana Mendieta Q&Art questions and art feminism, female oppression, female abuse

who was ana mendieta?

29 January 201830 March 2018 questionsandart

If you think the art world is a happy la-la land where unicorns, free-spirited people run free with rainbows in the sky, I’m sorry, but I have a rude awakening in store for you. Coco Fusco’s gripping essay in Hyperallergic* reveals the very … Continue reading who was ana mendieta?

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Marina Abramovic Stedelijk Base Questions and Art Q&Art qandart

performance art and the market?

23 January 201823 January 2018 questionsandart

Whether it is called performance art, live art, body art, or constructed situations, it is a medium in which the body – and not a material object – is used to create an artwork. Looking back to centuries of artmaking … Continue reading performance art and the market?

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ocular synthesis

12 January 201824 January 2018 questionsandart

Martha Rosler (1943, New York) works BALLOONS, BOY’S ROOM, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (GIACOMETTI), and BOWL OF FRUIT, are part of The Stedelijk’s new collection presentation BASE that opened in December. Rosler’s art focuses on the public realm, exploring issues from everyday life, in … Continue reading ocular synthesis

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2017: art or activism?

28 December 20172 April 2018 questionsandart

An expeditious conclusion when contemplating on art in 2017 is that it is starting to reflect how fucked up the world is. The world has always been unfair and full of oppression but people are beginning to speak up intensely and … Continue reading 2017: art or activism?

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questions and art Q&Art Andrea Fraser What is an artist?

what is an artist?

3 December 201713 August 2019 questionsandart

Spoiler alert: this is a Q&Art blog full of questions, without satisfying answers. Where did art movements go? Are we ever going to talk about art from the 00’s and early 10’s in terms of movements? Art history books seem … Continue reading what is an artist?

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poetry and politics

27 November 20173 January 2018 questionsandart

Poetry might be the most difficult art medium there is out there. It is something I intentionally avoid. When reading a poem, so many thoughts run through my head: the urge to make something tangible out of it, to understand it, … Continue reading poetry and politics

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on the spot

25 September 20173 May 2019 questionsandart

I often wonder how Untitled (Go-go Dancing Platform), 1991, fits into Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ oeuvre. The Cuban born artist is famous for his candy piles, stacks of posters (for both examples, the viewers are encouraged to take a piece), puzzle postcards, and … Continue reading on the spot

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out of the ordinary

21 September 201721 September 2017 questionsandart

“How do people disappear in an age of total over-visibility? Are people hidden by too many images? Do they go hide amongst other images? Do they become images?”                           … Continue reading out of the ordinary

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playing hardball

18 September 201720 September 2017 questionsandart

When you focus on political art, sometimes, you find yourself wondering where politics end and art starts. This was very much the case when I came across Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) Anti-Brexit posters. Tillmans is a German photographer, whose studio is … Continue reading playing hardball

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performance art? PART ONE.

22 August 20176 September 2017 questionsandart

I find Performance art a very difficult thing. I find it ungraspable, indefinable, unsettled, uncertain, and incomprehensible. I simply find it impossible to pinpoint what it is and incorporates. Many different occurrences are classified under the title ‘performance art’. In … Continue reading performance art? PART ONE.

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