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Question: Vagina Question

Napierzaza — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:11:07 -0800

Famous vagina-centric feminist artists out there? I know Judy Chicago is pretty famous for her Dinner Party and Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues is a good one too. Any others? I know there have been a few male ones too, can't remember. Google is not easy to search for this stuff!

My professor said once that the beaver was a hermaphodite. I tried to look it up on Google, but "Beaver sex" or "beaver vagina" never offered good results.

PS This is a serious post.

By: drpynchon

drpynchon — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:15:26 -0800

o'keeffe?

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:32:59 -0800

carolee schneeman's "interior scroll" is pretty much a classic.

i'd do a search on "body art", "performance", and possibly "70s".

By: Rumple

Rumple — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:33:17 -0800

Georgia O'Keefe came to my mind also.

By: Napierzaza

Napierzaza — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:36:03 -0800

Also: Who was the New York performance artist woman who had semi-nude women and men roll around the floor of a studio covered in dead fish and chickens? It was filmed and there were apparently all sorts of rules to how the touching and handling of the corpses happened.

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:36:49 -0800

oh, and for the beaver thing try "beaver hermaphrodite -xxx"

googleguide.com offers some good tips for searching with google.

By: ifjuly

ifjuly — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:43:12 -0800

tee corinne's cunt coloring book?

By: judith

judith — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:52:07 -0800

annie sprinkle famously let people look at her cervix through a speculum.

there's a re/search book called angry women that gives an excellent overview of this sort of art.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:05:44 -0800

miro. or am i imagining things?

By: nakedcodemonkey

nakedcodemonkey — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:12:43 -0800

Don't forget former NEA Four member Holly Hughes.

(MI on sex-positive feminism.)

By: picea

picea — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:25:43 -0800

Yoko Ono, early in her performance art career, squatted over a piece of canvas and painted with her menstrual blood (or maybe used a brush dipped in red paint and er, no hands). Art history class was a long time ago, so the details are sketchy.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:46:08 -0800

You have to read Viva La Vulva, it's a great essay. Also, picea reminded me of Vanessa Tiegs and Tinet Elmgren.

By: geryon

geryon — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:53:00 -0800

the rolling around on the floor naked with dead animals, was a piece called "Meat Joy" and it was also by Carolee Schneemann of the "interior scroll" fame.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:41:27 -0800

I am not sure if she would qualify for *famous,* but there is Hong Kong artist Phoebe Man's performance art, Rati. Here are some of her other works.

You might find some other artists in the Online Vulva Museum.

By: rafter

rafter — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:23:19 -0800

Yoko Ono, early in her performance art career, squatted over a piece of canvas and painted with her menstrual blood (or maybe used a brush dipped in red paint and er, no hands).

You're probably thinking of Shigeko Kubota's Vagina Painting (Ono and Kubota were both part of the Fluxus movement). Note that the brush was attached to her underwear, not inserted in the vagina.

By: naxosaxur

naxosaxur — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:43:26 -0800

Meret Oppenheim's famous fur-lined teacup.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:34:44 -0800

Karen Finley, the "Chocolate-Smeared Woman".

By: bendy

bendy — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:45:12 -0800

Vulva puppets

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:54:38 -0800

Kathy Acker.

By: euphorb

euphorb — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:23:36 -0800

Rachel Rosenthal

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:19:44 -0800

Well, the contributors aren't famous feminists as far as I can tell, but tamponart is vagina-centric, at least. There are probably a ton of other similar sites by now.

Also, the search you wanted for beaver hermaphrodites is this one. Adding the word "animal" knocked out most of the porn stuff (it's an easy trick for limiting search results; just add different words until you get closer to what you're looking for). For the record, the first result notes beavers are *pseudo*-hermaphrodites, based on evidence that many male beavers have been found to carry around a uterus.

Spencerville trapper Darcy Alkerton provided 11 male beavers to a research team at the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College. Two professors there were looking for something specific and they found it in 100 per cent of the males -- a uterus. They also found the "male uterus" in 70 per cent of the 13 beavers from Timmins, Algonquin Provincial Park and Guelph....

To further confuse the issue, in all European beavers, Castor fiber, males carry a uterus and are well-known as pseudo-hermaphrodites. (A true hermaphrodite, such as an earthworm, is so-well equipped with both gender's reproductive organs that no matter which gender it meets on the mating grounds, it's always the right one.)

By: teg

teg — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:41:13 -0800

Shawna Dempsey and Tracy Traeger's video short We're Talking Vulva.