Feminist Art Manifestos

I invent my own vision, neither “natural” nor ‘normal’ nor ‘objective’, but real as it surges from desire, and comprehensible if one forgets whatever institutions have taught us to understand.

a form of literature, manifestos occupy a specific place in the history of public discourse as a means to communicate radical ideas. Distributed as often ephemeral documents, as leaflets or pamphlets in political campaigns or as announcements of the formation of new parties or new avant-gardes, manifestos above all declare what its authors are for and against, and ask people who read them to join them, to understand, to share these ideas.

What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief.

What is a manifesto? A political programme, a declaration, a definitive statement of belief.

To tear apart the economic dependence of the cinema of huge crowds, huge budgets, huge means, huge consumption, huge dependency.
To tear apart the illustrative images, hostages of the social tales merchandised by the capitalist film industry.

To shatter the mirror of the fabricated woman, the passive actress, the one who obeys, the one who accepts being manipulated, the one who mediates for a stranger’s orgasm.

So little is know about women’s art because male historians have little interest in recording what women have created and achieved

‘I paint with my prick’ said Renoir – only too true……

WE REJECT IT. WE SAY NO TO EMPTY ABSTRACTIONS, to the ‘art for art’s sake’ philosophy of the privileged white middle-class male artworld.

Our century has tried to make art a part of reality, but the reality in our culture is cross, exploitative, capitalistic reality and our function as artists should be to expose the sickness of this culture and NOT to embrace it.