TaPRA 2019

Communities of (Bad) Feeling: Exclusion and Emotion in Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21 and Nicola L.’s Le Manteau Pour Onze Personnes (Same Skin for everybody ).In this paper I look at Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21 (1980) and her involvement with PESTS, an activist... Read More →

Protrusions in contemporary art and performance appear in different forms: as fragmented, bodily shapes, contagious molds, abstract shapes, viscous, fleshly folds. Female artists Renate Bertlmann, Yayoi Kusama and Julia Bardsley, amongst others, use protrusions in their photographic... Read More →

​​​​​​​​A Hole in the Head and the Heart:  Artistic encounters across arousal and replusion.In 1970 artist and LSD proponent, Amanda Feilding drilled a hole in her head to access a permanent high. Between 1969-1977 feminist sex positive multimedia artist, Penny Slinger... Read More →