Contemporary Art and Feminist Practices

As you all know, I'm pretty interested in feminist art, and I want to help you discover some of the best works of the last years. I want to talk to you about an artwork called Boys, Boys, Boys.

How do these woman artists try and succeed to articulate their politics of representation to their art practice? How do they create and appropriate a language, a purely feminine language that enable them to talk the body of women? Sabrina and the Cheeky Girls speak the jouissance, as put by Lacan, thus destroying the subjection of the body of women – the words on their bodies – enforced by phallogocentrism.

Comments

[poumpoum]

Bébi!
ça y est , je prends des cours de cardio danse en groupe de grasses devant une glace, je fais des pas débiles sur mickael jackson, je suis en routh pour faire un clip de cet accabit
miammiamiam

[James]

It seems to me that, through their simulacrum of feminine sexuality, the cheeky girls are in fact attacking and undermining the very concept of "feminine sexuality" as something "naturally" possessed by woman. I say this because the awkwardness of their "sexy" dancing, posturing, and clearly uncomfortable relationship with the narcotized lead male of the video all advertize the nature of this performance of feminine sexuality. As they come close to showing their boobs with those revealing bras (although, praise the Lord, they do not go nearly as far as Sabrina), they are in fact undertaking a concerted feminist action. And, perhaps their unique and bizarrely Romanian-inflected English is indeed a new women's language, an 'ecriture feminine' in song?

(This material may appear in a conference paper of the future: you privileged readers are getting a sneak preview!)

xxx

[marisqua]

Si j'avais une jumelle, je ferais la meme chose ...
malheureusement je nai que mes poils pr danser dans mes 8m²

[raclette sauvage]

The cheeky girls and repetition: repetition of the music, of the video, of their bodies.

Let's debate about the cheeky girls and the simulacrum!