Strange Bodies, Strange Nature: Corporeal and Environmental Artivisms of Lenka Klodová and Zdena Kolečková.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Strange Bodies, Strange Nature: Corporeal and Environmental Artivisms of Lenka Klodová and Zdena Kolečková.

Original language description

Just a few months before the 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia, a group of women who called themselves Prague Mothers strolled through the city with their children of various ages with banners asking the communist apparatchiks to share the information about the worsening environmental situation and the growing air pollution. Around the same time, another group of women manifested on the central square in Prague their frustration from the lack of sanitary napkins: the public exposure of basic women’s hygienic needs related to the menstruating body unmasked hypocrisy of the fading away regime more than many other political protests. This was the first time during the Communist era when solely women demonstrated against the regime picking up topics that were mostly irrelevant for their male contemporaries. Recollecting these two, often marginalized events that, nevertheless, contributed to the demolition of the totalitarian system, the text discusses how women artists who entered the Czech art scene after the collapse of communism in East Europe confront the traditional gender-based hierarchy of dualisms (culture/nature, mind/body etc.) and the patriarchal order while investigating nature and conceptualizing biology. It focuses on the work by Zdena Kolečková and Lenka Klodová who freely follow the legacy of women’s engagement in environmental issues and (maternal) body politics in the era of late socialism. Although not explicitly activist, their projects that explore and employ natural or corporeal existence respectively have a subversive but also formative character. They treat nature, body and motherhood not in terms of naturalism or fixed essence but as a site of social and political inscription and – most importantly – production.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Feminist Art Activism and Artivism.

ISBN

978-94-92095-72-5

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

302-315

Number of pages of the book

443

Publisher name

Valiz Amsterdam

Place of publication

Amsterdam

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