Feminism was devised to explore the lives of women and performance art became a way to express vivid emotions that other forms of art could not. Performance and video also explored what the female body meant and how it was more than a sexual object being viewed by the male gaze.
Marina Abramovic
- Was born in Serbia
- Her art explores the limits of the human body, and the interactive experience between her art/body and the audience
- Her performances consisted of long, and strenuous hours with her partner, Ulay
- Her art focused on religion, feminine sexuality, and the naked human body
- Portrayed how art is pushed past its traditional limits of painting and sculpting
Margaret Harrison
-Conducted the first solo feminist exhibition in London, which was shut down by the police because it was deemed “too controversial”.
- Used images of pop culture that society was obsessed and added feminine attributes to them to expose double standards and exploitation.
-Used humor to show the problems she believed needed to be addressed in society.
Yoko Ono
-Created very interactive art; always wanted her audience to interact with her and create part of her pieces.
-One of her most famous performance pieces was “Cut Piece”, which showed how people viewed the female body and how aggressive this could be at times. She became the sexual object in this piece, rather than the subject.
Hannah Wilke
Wilke began her career as a sculptor during the 1960’s. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1956 to 1961. Wilke employed a wide range of media; her experiments with non-art material were not unusual for the time, but her chosen media were playful, including gum, erasers, chocolate, cookie dough, and dryer lint. Although she is best known as a feminist artist, she was also a teacher for approximately 30 years. From the year of her graduation from Temple University until 1970, she taught art at two high schools, one in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (1961–65), and the other in White Plains, New York (1965–70).
Gestures:
Used her own face as a canvas to play and make faces towards the camera for half of hour.
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