A piece of land
By: [collected and edited by S.O.J., Mikaela Krestesen, Moa Krestesen ; all photographs (and captions), Jane Winter]
Contributors: S.O.J.
Publisher: Konst-ig
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9789163748196
Subjects: Pictorial works; Women artists; Millett Farm (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Description: This book focuses on the ongoing interdisciplinary art project about the communal life at Millett Farm. In 1978, feminist author, Kate Millett founded an art colony for women in Poughkeepsie USA that remained in operation until the beginning of the new millennium. The colony was founded out of a belief that a gender-specific community would provide an environment where women artists could work unencumbered by social stigma. Millett is best known for Sexual Politics (1970) and her ground-breaking work for women's liberation. She was a member of both the feminist and gay liberation movements that inspired feminist and lesbian separatist cultural and communal experiments in the 1970s. Millett Farm evolved from incorporating elements of the radical feminist - gay liberation - and avant-garde movements. 2010 Kate Millett invited S.O.J. to stay with her at The Farm, that became the starting point for our cultural portrait of this unique community. A close friend of Millett told us that The Farm was a workshop of Kate's mind. Many past residents from The Farm talk about Millett's strong vision for the colony, creating a experimental community devoted to both the production and the discussion of art made by women. Since 2008, Sisters of Jam (Moa and Mikaela Krestensen) have been working in interdisciplinary art projects using multiple media --photography, video, drawing, installation and text -- in an ongoing investigation of community, solitude, historiography and continuity. Their work seeks to address a feminist dialogue over generations and geographies. A dialogue that is both virtual and allegorical; that reaches backwards and forwards and at the same time tells us something new. Sisters of Jam use collaborative work methods to overcome boundaries of genres and become wider, greater and stronger.