Publication Proposal (Arielle)

I would like to focus on the inclusion of women artists and writers in this project. In my own critical writing, I have gravitated towards work made by women. This is both a conscious strategy and an honest reflection of where my interests lie. I am often drawn to work that presents a feminine perspective, whatever a "feminine" perspective entails (I am particularly compelled by the films of Catherine Breillat). I am also interested in artists that lend a feminist reading to certain art-historical movements, such as the post-Minimal practices of Eva Hesse, Hannah Wilke, Polly Apfelbaum, and Lily van der Stokker. Most importantly, the strongest online alliances I have formed have been with other women, namely Bunny Rogers and Marie Calloway.

I will now write about three artists I would like to include in the publication, Marie Calloway being one of them.

I became familiar with Marie's writing around a year ago. I stumbled upon her personal tumblr by chance, and was struck by how similar our interests were. Also a twenty-one year old university student, Marie writes mainly about Marxism, sexuality, identity, and pop culture. She writes diaristic, first-person stories under a pseudonym (Marie Calloway is not her real name). She has received a sizable amount of attention in the past few months, both negative and positive, regarding her story Adrien Brody. Most of the discussion around the work questions centers on its moral and feminist implications. Her writing has been compared often to Chris Kraus's, particularly I Love Dick. I think it is fair to say that Marie is writing in this tradition, with the connotations of writing about one's personal life being complicated by the parameters of online networked space.


The second artist whose work I am considering is Fumiko Imano. Fumiko lives in Japan and comes from a fashion background, having worked in the past with Charles Anastase and SHOWstudio. Her body of work consists mainly of self-portraits. She almost always appears in double, dressed in "matching" self-styled outfits. I like how her photographs bear obvious relation to the construction of identity - mainly through the activity of dressing up, one that is associated with women - without setting forth this idea as a didactic conceptual decision. While she works mostly in analog media, she maintains an interesting online presence with her personal blog and Youtube channel.

The third artist I am thinking about is Jamie Felton. Jamie is a young artist who recently began graduate school. Her projects vary greatly in terms of media, as she works across installation, video, books, painting, and text. Some of her work seems directly related to the history of feminist practices (an attempt to include the body, a reconsideration of formalism using "feminine" forms, etc), engaging at the same time with Internet and post-Conceptual practices. I have spoken to Jamie before of our mutual interest in Bas Jan Ader, who seems to be a strong influence on her.



I made a text piece dedicated to Jamie in 2010:

What brings these artists together is my personal relationship to each of them and the nature of their practices. Each one uses the Internet as an avenue for presenting and creating work, though would not consider themselves (I believe) to be Internet Artists.