#1950-2000

Kollektsia ! Art contemporain en URSS et en Russie 1950-2000

Sous la direction de : Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov et Olga Sviblova

Editions Xavier Barral / Centre Pompidou, Paris 2017, 347 pages,               ISBN  978-2365111270

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Cet ensemble offre un panorama inédit des divers courants esthétiques, présentés autour de quatre axes : le non conformisme des années 1960, le Sots-art des années 1970, le Conceptualisme et les mouvements nés consécutivement à la Perestroïka dans les années 1990 à Moscou et à Léningrad. Cette mise en perspective de l'histoire de l'art et des idées en ex-URSS et dans la Russie actuelle dresse le portrait inédit d'une scène artistique encore méconnue en France. Peintures, sculptures, photographies, albums, dessins... d'artistes majeurs, comme Ilya Kabakov ou Oleg Koulik, ou plus confidentiels donnent à voir un art russe souvent étonnant mêlant références politiques, poétiques et artistiques.

Centre Pompidou du 14 septembre 2016 au 2 avril 2017

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Organization: Fierce Pussy

Fierce Pussy is a collective of queer women artists. Formed in New York City in 1991 through immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity and visibility directly into the streets. 

American Psychological Association determines homosexuality is not a mental disorder, 1973.

In the wake of Stonewall, in 1973 homosexuality was removed from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and was a major accomplishment of the gay liberation movement. Yet now that gays were 'free' from psychopathology transgender groups were excluded from gay rights movement as they were no longer united with a common interest.

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The Mental Illness that Went Away

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, APA. 

After the 1960s counterculture movement in the 70s an acceptance of women wearing traditional male clothing was easier to swallow than males in female attire. Challenging these gender norms were Avant-garde transgender theatrical and musical groups such as the Cockettes. The Cockettes were based in San Francisco and completed their last performance in 1972.

More about the Cockettes:

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Harry Benjamin. The Transexual Phenomenon. 1966.

Benjamin's book in 1966 brought about a wave of changes in medical and legal attitudes towards transgender people. Shortly after its publication the first sex change program emerged at John Hopkins University.

Book Copy in pdf.

Photo of 1993 Camp Trans - Created in direct response to Michigans Womyn’s Festival in 1991

Camp Trans was an annual demonstration and event held outside the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival by trans women and their allies to protest what they perceived as the Festival's policy of excluding trans women from attending the event.

Camp Trans was sparked by a 1991 incident in which Nancy Burkholder was ejected from the festival after another woman asked her whether she was trans and she refused to answer.[2] The MWM festival maintained a women-born-women policy since its inception, as evidenced by posters from the first festival in 1975. Each year afterwards a group of women, both transgender and cisgender, protested the exclusion of trans women from the event. Initially, these protests were small and sometimes carried on inside of the camp.

A more organized group of trans women and their allies began camping and holding demonstrations outside the gate. After a five-year hiatus, Camp Trans returned in 1999, led by transgender activists Riki Ann Wilchins and Leslie Feinberg, as well as many members of the Boston and Chicago Lesbian Avengers The events of this year drew attention and controversy, culminating in tensions as a small group of transgender activists were admitted into the festival to exchange dialogue with organizers and to negotiate a short-lived compromise allowing only post-operative trans women on the festival land.