Focusing on the underrepresention of women in the art world
School of Missing Men, APRIA, Studium Generale and BEAR
blogtopic: Feminism
Over the past year, ArtEZ Studium Generale has invited The School of Missing Men to perform interviews with guests on their programme who have a meaningful relation to the core questions underlying the initiative. The School of Missing Men takes as its starting point the fact that 75 percent of students at BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research, the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in Arnhem) are women, a standard ratio in fine art departments across the Netherlands and abroad. How is it, then, that women continue to be largely underrepresented in many registers in the broader field of art?
Photo: Huang Jing Yuan Museum Arnhem
For the first edition of APRIA, the four authors who wrote the contributions for The School of Missing Men were all BEAR students at the time they conducted the interviews with the guests of ArtEZ Studium Generale, but some have since graduated and started the next step in their artistic trajectories.
Each author took the opportunity to engage with the guests and the material produced in the interviews from a set of personal questions that they were grappling with in their respective art practices or thinking through within the framework of The School of Missing Men.
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For the first edition of APRIA, the four authors who wrote the contributions for The School of Missing Men were all BEAR students at the time they conducted the interviews with the guests of ArtEZ Studium Generale, but some have since graduated and started the next step in their artistic trajectories.
Each author took the opportunity to engage with the guests and the material produced in the interviews from a set of personal questions that they were grappling with in their respective art practices or thinking through within the framework of The School of Missing Men.
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In her interview with Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Christine Ayo reflects on the intergenerational relations of feminism as well as the caveats of speaking for/on behalf of others, even when good intentions are at play. Read more
Interview with Huang Jing Yuan: a Social Art Practitioner from China
In her written account of the interview with Chinese artist Huang Jing Yuan, Yuchen Li extracts strategies for art making that ensure that the work remains accessible to a wide range of intersectional positions by finding common ground on which those positions can intersect and negotiate meaning, while safeguarding the complexity of a given topic. Read more
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Data Bosma and Rosan van Doeselaar open up their conversation with journalist Emily Witt addressing the design and use of dating apps as a crucial site to reflect on, and transform, sexual assumptions and practices. Read more
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