
From the a-n archive: Extremes of consciousness, August 1997
Judith Palmer on why practitioners including Franko B are working with seemingly painful forms of expression, pushing performance to extremes.
Judith Palmer on why practitioners including Franko B are working with seemingly painful forms of expression, pushing performance to extremes.
Download and print Martina Mullaney’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s.
Cover image by pressure group Fanny Adams which campaigned in the early 1990s to expose inequality and discrimination in the art world.
Download and print Nicola Singh’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s.
Sources: PEOPLE’S GRAPHIC DESIGN ARCHIVE https://www.peoplesgdarchive.org/ Women’s Fantasies and Feminist Utopias https://archive.org/details/womanonedgeoftim0000unse/mode/2up Emma Goldman https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation Super Sisters https://www.notion.so/Collecting-Inspiration-with-Supersisters-5cc127303afa497a83610bad37ce5f7b WIKIMEDIA Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ayesha_Al-Taymuriyya_cropped.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babilina_khositashvili.jpg
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