I want to thank Dr. Delgado Guay for inviting me to speak to you this morning and everyone else who helped organize this important conference. I will be talking about my work with the non-profit organization, Collage, The Art for Cancer Network, which pays artists to work with patients at M.D. Anderson hospital and how […]
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Unspoken Stories
Part I Thank you for inviting me to speak to you this evening. I feel honored to be a part of this series. In the spirit of your previous presenters, I would like to begin by telling you some stories, stories about images. I will be talking about my work with the nonprofit organization, Collage, […]
Modest Witness: A Collaboration with Donna Haraway, 2009
When I read Donna Haraway’s Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1989, I was intrigued and inspired. Here was a piece that resonated with my political, feminist and moral values. Haraway was getting up close, magnifying and focusing on science, technology and socialist-feminism while contesting the “old world order.” Her work brought to mind Robert Hooks’ first […]
Cyborgs, Wonder Woman and Techno-Angels: A Series of Spectacles
INTRODUCTION Over the past several years I’ve found myself engaged in a re-visioning of the world that required me to scan across a wide cultural landscape for information, ideas. and interrogations that affirm and inform my own feminist, social, political, and psychic agendas. I have always believed that art and life are inseparable and that […]
Between Cultural Eras: The Effects of Postmodern Thinking on the Modernist Concept of Regionalism
Prepared for the panel: The Regional Artist: The Virtues and Perils of Being a Regional Artist. Numerous observers agree that we are currently experiencing a major shift in many of our major cultural paradigms and practices, a shift equal and perhaps greater than that associated with the Renaissance. While there may be no return to […]
The Ilusas (deluded women): Representations of women who are out of bounds
A slide presentation of recent paintings TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30, 7:30 P.M. The Bunting Institute Colloquium Room 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 In 17th century Mexico there was a floating population of women who were prostitutes, widows, orphans and estranged wives. They lived outside the legitimate estates of church and home; they were regarded by […]
Secular Uses of Traditional Religious Images in a Postmodern Society
“Religion, it has frequently been said, both articulates and responds to the life experience, the ideas and the ultimate concerns of human beings and communities.” (1) These lines from Margaret Miles’ book, Image as Insight, give voice to feelings I have about religion as being broader and deeper than either most instituted religions or the […]