Faith Wilding
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Faith Wilding is a Paraguayan-American multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator, widely known for her contribution to the progressive development of feminist art.
Faith Wilding immigrated to the United States from Paraguay in 1961.[1] She holds a degree in English from the University of Iowa and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance/Installation/Feminist Art from California Institute of the Arts.[2] Wilding first became involved in art making through her participation in the Feminist Art Program Judy Chicago founded at California State University, Fresno, in 1970.[3] Wilding had a demonstrated interest in feminist issues and activism, but little art training prior to her involvement with the Feminist Art Program.[4] When Chicago teamed with fellow artist Miriam Schapiro and moved the Feminist Art Program to Cal Arts in Valencia,CA the following year, Wilding remained in the relocated program as a graduate student.[5] While there, she created work for the month-long, ground-breaking feminist exhibition Womanhouse, held in an empty house in Los Angeles in 1972. Wilding's work Waiting, performed at Womanhouse, was an important contribution to feminist performance.
Wilding's work within the Feminist Art Movement in Southern California is chronicled in her book By Our Own Hands (Los Angeles, 1976). For thirty years, Wilding has exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide, and her work has been widely recognized.. Her work addresses the recombinant and distributed bio-tech body in various media including 2-D, video, digital media, installations, and performances. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Drawing Center, all in New York City; in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum; the Riverside Art Museum; Ars Electronica Center, Linz; documenta X, Kassel; and The Next Five Minutes Festival, Amsterdam. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio.[6]
Wilding has been the Chair of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2003.[7] Wilding has also been Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University,[8] and a faculty member of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Program at Vermont College, Norwich University.[9] She has received several grants and awards in art, including a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.[10]
Wilding founded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and tactical performance in the public sphere to explore and critique the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work. SubRosa produces artworks, performances, workshops, contestational campaigns, publications, media interventions and public forums, including in Berlin; at Syracuse University; in the important Interventionists exhibition at MASSMoCA ; in Perth, Australia (Biennial of Electronic Arts); in Mexico City, and Mérida, Yucatán; Mainz; National University, Singapore; Zurich; and Vienna.
[edit] Publications
- Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices. Autonomedia, 2003
- The Power of Feminist Art, Abrams,1995.
- Knowing Bodies - Feminist issues in health care, medicine, and biotechnology
- Stolen Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Choice by ART Industries
- "Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?". Neme. 28 March 2006. http://www.neme.org/392/cyberfeminism. Retrieved September 18, 2010.; also published as Faith Wilding, 'Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism?' n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal vol.2 (1998) pp.6-13
- "Monstrous Domesticy". M/E/A/N/I/N/G, #18. November, l995. http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/domesticity.html. Retrieved May 31, 2007.
- Laura Meyer with Faith Wilding, 'Collaboration and Conflict in the Fresno Feminist Art Program: An Experiment in Feminist Pedagogy' n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal vol. 26, July 2010 pp. 40-51
- subRosa / Faith Wilding 'Bodies Unlimited A decade of subRosa's art practice' vol.28 July 2012 n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal pp.16-25
[edit] References
- ^ "Faith Wilding". About Faith Wilding. http://faithwilding.refugia.net/. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ "Faith Wilding". CV. http://faithwilding.refugia.net/. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. pp. 10.
- ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. pp. 10.
- ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. pp. 13,105.
- ^ "Faith Wilding". Korepress.org. http://www.korepress.org/bios/wilding.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "Bio : Faith Wilding". Saic.edu. http://www.saic.edu/people/Wilding_Faith.html?color=ORANGE. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "New Observations /113: Faith Wilding". Plexus.org. http://www.plexus.org/newobs/113/pg26.html. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "Faith Wilding | Vermont College of Fine Arts". Vermontcollege.edu. http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/177. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- ^ "Faith Wilding - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. http://www.gf.org/fellows/16512-faith-wilding. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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[edit] External links
- Interview with Faith Wilding and Brett Stalbaum from M/E/A/N/I/N/G
