Open AccessThe Making of ‘Good’ Mirrors: Art and Activism in Public Space
Author(s) -
Jody Haines
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of public space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2206-9658
DOI - 10.32891/jps.v4i3.1228
Subject(s) - public space , political activism , space (punctuation) , representation (politics) , context (archaeology) , politics , studio , resistance (ecology) , sociology , indigenous , public relations , media studies , visual arts , political science , aesthetics , computer science , engineering , art , law , architectural engineering , history , ecology , archaeology , biology , operating system
This article, The Making of ‘Good’ Mirrors: Art and Activism in Public Space, discusses the Feminist and Indigenous methods I apply to co-created collaborative and relational portraiture projects expressly created for public space and semi-public space and how they act as art and activism. The discussed projects, created using still and moving image, work in resistance to the problem of the gendered aesthetic within the Australian context through the applied making methods within a social studio, the politics of representation and the public placement of the project’s products. Discussed projects include #IAMWOMAN (2017-current), Women Dreaming (2018) and Flipping the Script (2018).