The articles in Signs’s Winter 2013 issue span a range of disciplines, theoretical vantage points, and topics of study. Jonneke Koomen’s “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything” explores the limits justice revealed in the nexus of prosecutors, translators, and survivors of genocide, among others, during the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Megan Moodie […]
Signs will have several events at the National Women’s Studies Association’s upcoming annual conference, Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future, November 8-11, 2012. Join Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth, along with the editors of several other leading feminist journals, for the panel “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals” on Friday, November 9, from 9:25-10:40 […]
Artist Statement Ebru Özseçen, Şerbet (1999-2010), installation view, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University (2012). 16 mm film installation. Photo by Dot Paolo. Courtesy of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art and the artist. Artist Statement:{{1}} Şerbet (1999-2010) The film shows a stack of Burma Baklava saturated with syrup like a cascading skyscraper. Şerbet, “sugared water” […]
Artist Statement Shahzia Sikander, stills from SpiNN (2003). Video animation. Courtesy of the artist. Shahzia Sikander, stills from The Last Post (2010). HD video animation, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. Artist Statement: The digital animation SpiNN (2003) is a pun on the cable channel CNN. It depicts a mass of spiraling, abstracted forms, hovering like […]
Artist Statement Shiva Ahmadi, Oil Barrel #9 (2009). Oil on steel, 34 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Collection of Howard and Maryam Newman, Courtesy of the Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. Shiva Ahmadi, Hades (2011). Mixed media, 80 × 60 in. Courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. […]
Katarzyna Pollok’s Sara in a Snailhouse appears on the cover of the Autumn 2012 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 1), which features a comparative perspectives symposium on Romani feminisms, edited by Ethel Brooks. Artist Statement Sara is the name of a saint worshipped by Roma in the south of France. She is supposed to […]
Artist Statement Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi, stills from Mendeel Um A7mad (NxIxSxM) (2012). HD video, 15:28 minutes. Courtesy of the artists. Fatima Al Qadiri, Bored (1997). Digital print, 64 5/8 × 78 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist. Artist Statement: My visual work examines the interplay among gender, style, and performance by […]
Artist Statement Artist Statement: My artwork examines how people and spaces become polarized as a result of binary divisions. During my formative years, Beirut was characterized by perpetual conflict—political alliances shifted regularly, often culminating in armed clashes. Those who shared geographical and socioeconomic markers of identity with political factions were seen as being a part […]
Artist Statement Lifting a Secret (2009). Still from performance at the Claire Oliver Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. Artist Statement: The idea, the thought, the draft are the bases for my artwork. My ideas come from everyday-life situations, social and cultural atmospheres. The idea expresses itself in […]
Artist Statement Parastou Farouhar, Ashura Butterfly, from the seven-part series Butterfly, 2010 Digital print on photo paper, 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. Courtesy of the RH Gallery, New York, and the artist. Artist Statement: The production of identity, and the repressive mechanisms by which it is reified, comprise the focus of my work. My homeland, Iran, is […]
