Kobieta walcząca o pozycję w polu produkcji artystycznej. Samoidentyfikacja, samoorganizacja i samoemancypacja według Ewy Partum
A Woman who Fights for Her Status in the Field of Artistic Production: Self-identification, Self-organisation, and Self-emancipation according to Ewa Partum

Author(s): Tomasz Załuski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Ewa Partum; conceptual art.; feminism; self-organisation; alternative art galleries
Summary/Abstract: Ewa Partum’s conceptual art of the early 1970s consisted in creating a new artistic language, but at the same time it bore some traits of feminism and was marked by the figure of what might be called “a woman’s touch.” The artist’s self-organisational activities – which took the form of establishing and running an alternative art gallery called “Adres” – can be also considered to be self-emancipatory feminist practice. The gallery was instrumental in Partum’s attempts at producing symbolic capital for herself and taking a position in the field of Polish and international neo avant-garde. In the article, I use this perspective to interpret Partum’s selected artworks, performances, and organisational practices as well as to look at an ongoing process of historisation and institutionalisation of her art.

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