Essays
This collection of “Essays of Womanifesto – An International Art Exchange” comprises articles, papers, journals, and books written by researchers, historians, and women writers. It highlights the roles and contributions of female artists in the modern world, offering unique insights and reflections on contemporary art, gender dynamics, and cultural exchanges within the global art community.
ผลงานรวบรวม “บทความของ วูแมนิเฟสโต – การแลกเปลี่ยนศิลปะระหว่างประเทศ” นี้ ประกอบด้วยบทความ งานวิจัย วิทยานิพนธ์/สารนิพนธ์ วารสาร และหนังสือที่เขียนโดยนักวิจัย นักประวัติศาสตร์ และนักเขียนหญิง โดยเน้นบทบาทและผลงานของศิลปินหญิงในโลกสมัยใหม่ มอบข้อมูลเชิงลึกและการสะท้อนความคิดที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์เกี่ยวกับศิลปะร่วมสมัย พลวัตทางเพศ และการแลกเปลี่ยนทางวัฒนธรรมในชุมชนศิลปะทั่วโลก
Womanifesto: Flowing Connections. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. Exhibition Publication
MID-SEPTEMBER, 2023
By Asia Art Archive
A catalogue was published for the exhibition "Womanifesto: Flowing Connections," held at the Main Exhibition Gallery on the 8th Floor of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. It includes essays by Preenun Nana, Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Varsha Nair, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Somporn Rodboon, Yvonne Low, and Roger Nelson.
Womanifesto Explores Feminism, Flows, and Freedom
Art AsiaPacific, Jan 2024
JANUARY 30, 2024
By Phatarawadee Phataranawik, Jan 30, 2024
The "Womanifesto: Flowing Connections," exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre commemorates the 26th anniversary of the Womanifesto collective. It features over 30 female artists from Asia and beyond, showcasing a variety of media addressing gender issues. Highlights include contributions from founding members and workshops, along with a tribute to deceased members.
Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events
From Events that Matter to Events that Care
JANUARY 12, 2024By Julie Ren ,Charlotte Matter ,Rosa Sancarlo, and Virginia Marano
Art events like biennials often address urgent issues like the environment, war, and Indigenous rights, but can reproduce exploitative relations. Viewing crisis as an ongoing condition, this analysis explores the collective practices of ruangrupa (Indonesia), Womanifesto (Thailand), and Atis Rezistans/Ghetto Biennale (Haiti).Ren, J., Matter, C., Sancarlo, R., & Marano, V. (2023). Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care. Third Text, 37(5–6), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2297626
Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public
November 9, 2021
Womanifesto: Bo Choy for Art and Its Worlds
By Bo Choy Published by: Afterall Publication
This anthology in the Exhibition Histories series explores some of the myriad worlds conjured by art and the telling of their histories. Introduction by Charles Esche, Lucy Steeds, David Morris. Contributors: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Miguel A. López, Eddie Chambers, Francesca Recchia, Pablo Lafuente, Philippe Pirotte, Ntone Edjabe, Clémentine Deliss, Khwezi Gule, Charles Gaines, David Teh, Ekaterina Degot, Ana Teixeira Pinto, María Berríos & Mujeres Creando.
The Rise of Alternative Art Biennials
MAY 17, 2021
By Ho See Wah Published in The Art & Market
This is Part 2 of a story on biennials. Part 1, ‘How Can Art Biennials Continue to be Relevant?’, explored criticisms against the dominant biennial model and how it can continue to add value to the art world. Part 2 will centre on the growth of independent and alternative biennials in Southeast Asia.
Art on the Back Burner: Gender as the Elephant in the Room of Southeast Asian Art Histories
MARCH, 2019
By Eileen Legaspi- Ramirez. Published on: the Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Volume 3, Number 1.
The article focuses on the underrepresentation of the critical role played by primarily woman artist-organizers in shaping art practice narratives, emphasizing both their visible and less visible tasks within the art world.Legaspi-Ramirez, Eileen. "Art on the Back Burner: Gender as the Elephant in the Room of Southeast Asian Art Histories." Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia vol. 3 no. 1, 2019, p. 25-48, Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/sen.2019.0002.
Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Vol.3 No.1
MARCH 2019
Written by Various Writers
Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual culture, published online and in print twice yearly by NUS Press, National University of Singapore. The journal aims to look and listen closely to the discursive spaces of art in, from, and around the region that is referred to as Southeast Asia, from a historical perspective.
The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality
March 4, 2019
By Helena Reckitt Published by: Afterall Publication
ISBN 9781849766494
The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women’s lives across the globe. The book includes over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art.
Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art. Views from the Now/here
MAY 2007
Written by Various Writers
A contemporary art journal, digitally published for easy reproduction and global circulation, has uploaded its sixth issue. This special edition commemorates its first anniversary and serves as the second special issue for documenta 12 magazines in May 2007. Essays 30 to 38 explore topics such as "Merpeople in a Man’s Land: The Comfort Zone of Awkwardness in Which We Dwell" by Phaptawan Suwannakudt, and "Womanifesto: Roots Down and Continues to Distill" by Varsha Nair, among others.
No Man’s Land
May 13, 2015
Learn More By Katherine Olston
AVAILABLE IN THAI AND ENGLISH
The project No Man’s Land invites 65 participants from diverse backgrounds to use cyberspace as a platform to present works exploring the concept of borders, their powers of inclusion and exclusion, and their dual role in promoting unity and conflict.
Discovering No Man’s Land
June 2015
Learn More By Keiko Sei
AVAILABLE IN THAI AND ENGLISH
This article explores the concept of cyberspace as a "new frontier" or "New America," and how various artists, writers, and activists have engaged with and represented this digital realm through creative projects and metaphors. The article also examines the themes of discovery, experience, and connection within virtual spaces, using the 5th Womanifesto's "No Man’s Land" project as a focal point.
Shudders in the Cradle
March 2003
Learn more By Varsha Nair
This is from a collection of essays published in conjunction with the First International Women's Art Festival and for the exhibition "From My Fingers, Living in the Technological Age" at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, organised by the museum and the Taiwan Women's Art Association (pp 111-118).
Artists Retreate to Countryside
January-April 2002
DOWNLOAD By Varsha Nair
The article published in SPAFA JOURNAL, a publication of the SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization) Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts, Volume 12, Number 1, January-April 2002.
No Work Is Good Work
January 2002
Learn More By Varsha Nair
Available at Asia Art Archive Hong Kong for onsite access only
Published in art4d, Dec 2001 – Jan 2002, Vol. No. 78, Issue December 2001-January 2002, pp. 30–31
Womanifesto: An Exhibition of Woman's Art in Bangkok
April/May/June 2000
Learn More By Varsha Nair
Published in ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 26, April/May/June 2000, a magazine covering contemporary art and culture from Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East.
Womanifesto II — jogging ahead
July 1999
In this article, the co-organisor of Womanfesto II in Bangkok discusses the project and the work of participating artists Amanda Heng, Nilofar Akmut, Sanja Ivekovic, Or-Anong Klinsiri, Jittima Pholsawek, Nguyen Dam Thuy, Ko Hyun-Hee and Sermsuk Thiensoonthorn. "Womanifesto is in every way an artist-initiated event and our network has grown steadily in a direct way, mainly through personal contact and friendship."
Download By Varsha Nair
Published in n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 4, July 1999 Sculpture/Installation pp.91-94.In this article, the co-organisor of Womanfesto II in Bangkok discusses the project and the work of participating artists Amanda Heng, Nilofar Akmut, Sanja Ivekovic, Or-Anong Klinsiri, Jittima Pholsawek, Nguyen Dam Thuy, Ko Hyun-Hee and Sermsuk Thiensoonthorn. "Womanifesto is in every way an artist-initiated event and our network has grown steadily in a direct way, mainly through personal contact and friendship."