Critical Writing Index

Redesigning Women at The Illustrated Woman: The Second Annual Feminist Activism and Art Conference

by Douglas Fogle

Video Networks, Apr. 1994, v. 18, no. 2, pp. 17-21

Douglas Fogle summarizes and comments on the artistic and theoretical presentations at the second annual conference on feminist activism and art, The Illustrated Woman, highlighting the statements and work of videomakers Barbara Hammer, Shu Lea Cheang and Kathy High, as well as the performances of Carla Kirkwood, the visual art of Hung Liu, Millie Wilson and Marisa Hernandez, and the body art and politics of Orlan and Susan Stryker.

ITEM 1994.060 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Barbara Hammer

Fresh KillShu Lea Cheang

Human Torso Gives BirthSapphire

Bodies of EvidenceCarla Kirkwood

Tu Tu FetaleMarisa Fernandez

The Museum of Lesbian DreamsMillie Wilson

Dress as a GirlMillie Wilson

Hung Liu

She Loves It, She Loves It NotChristine Tamblyn

Carol Queen

Underexposed: Temple of the FetusKathy High

Barbara DeGenvieve

Michelle Handelman

Susan Stryker

Orlan