POP FEMINIST PERBLOG

Mona Hatoum, Hair Necklace
1995

Mona Hatoum, Hair Drawing
2003

Janine Antoni, Loving Care
performance with Loving Care hair dye in “Natural Black”
1993

Pierrette Bloch, Grande Maille (1976)

Pierrette Bloch

Anna Maria Maiolino, “Untitled” (1996)

makingandunmakingselves:

Jessica Lagunas

Retorno a la pubertad
Return to Puberty

New York, 2005
Single-channel digital video
58 minutes
Color, Silent
Photographs

Video close-up of my pubis in a static single shot, in which I depilate most of my pubic hair with a pair of tweezers continuously for one hour.

In the name of beauty most women will put on makeup, do their hair, nails, depilate, diet, fix their noses and breasts. Although few women will reach society’s beauty ideals, they will sculpt their bodies as needed. In this video I play along with women’s beauty rituals, performing them in exaggerated ways to reflect the pressures imposed by today’s society. The camera focuses on the part of the body where the action takes place: With repetitive gestures I depilate my pubis continuously for one hour, questioning the pressure to have a pre-pubescent appearance.

I’m not really down with the message here, but obviously this is relevant to me.

pit-beef:

Andres Bedoya   “Ultra Madre”   [Video]

In 2009 Andres Bedoya organized a haunting performance installation “Ultra Madre,” in which 57 women lay still on the scaffolding of the main arch of the Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia. For one hour the women did not move, their long, black hair cascading down the 15-foot structure. The jarring image of the soft hair against the rigid architecture stirred a quiet but lasting sense of unease.

Installation and Performance - mixed media, approx. 8’ w x 15’ h x 5’ d, National Museum of Art, La Paz, Bolivia, 2009.

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unicornology:

typeverything:

Typeverything.com

Fukt Magazine Cover by Ariane Spanier.

Incredible hair typography.

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Sheena, 15.