Mine are True Love Stories:
What the Feminist Body Wants? and Why Explicit?
Type
Symposium
Series
Ellen Cantor: Mine Are True Love Stories
Location
Skowhegan NYC
136 West 22nd Street
New York, NY, 10011
Date
6:30 – 9 PM
Symposium Program
What the Feminist Body Wants?
With A.K. Burns, Jack Halberstam, Xandra Ibarra, and Julie Tolentino, moderated by Natasha Marie Llorens.
In this conversation a group of artists extends Ellen Cantor’s critical perspective on sexually explicit material to the present, and contextualize her contribution in reverse. The discussion addresses the different stakes of visibility for normative vs. non-normative sexualities.
Why Explicit?
With Lorraine O’Grady, Sondra Perry, Sable Elyse Smith, moderated by Vivian Crockett.
Lorraine O’Grady’s provocation, published as an essay for the first version of “Coming to Power” in 1993, included this question: where is the sexually explicit work by women of color, and what discourses is it responding to? This panel does not necessarily answer O’Grady’s question, but rather explores how sexually explicit material resonates outside the realm of hegemonic whiteness.
About the series:
Titled after a statement by Skowhegan’s former alum artist Ellen Cantor in 1995, Mine Are True Love Stories takes the work of an artist as a prompt to discuss different ideas in the field of contemporary art. Ellen Cantor was one of the most influential artists of her generation charting new feminist representations of sexuality and female empowerment. Organized by curator and writer Natasha Marie Llorens, the series brings together artists and scholars amidst an unprecedented joint effort of the Estate of Ellen Cantor and seven organizing venues presenting and discussing her work.
