A Feminist Manifesto for Creative Women Very often, national histories are constructed through mythology and Georgia is no exception in this regard. Rather opposite, often we are exaggerating the country’s glorious past. By Anna Dziapshipa
Woman’s Identity in the Georgian Visual Art: Pagava, Iankoshvili, Kvesitadze, Khizanishvili Over the last thirty years woman’s identity in Georgia has undergone significant change and this transformative process has not yet been completed. Significantly this shift was predetermined by a corresponding radical revision in the global economic and social paradigms. By Nina Mdivani
Daniella Zalcman and Women's Photography @FeminStream Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer based between London and New York. [external_media:soundcloud.com/user-371501232/feminstream-8] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Natali Djurberg @FeminStream /Art/ Natalie Djurberg is best known for producing claymation short films, where characters have shocking behaviour and do not leave place for morality. [external_media:soundcloud.com/user-371501232/49dceee8dmkw] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Louise Bourgeois’ Spider ‘Maman’ @FeminStream /Art/ 'I have been to hell and beck, and let me tell you – it was wonderfull.' Podcast (16) about arts (in Georgian):[external_media:soundcloud.com/user-371501232/feminstream-3] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Natela Grigalashvili and her Photo Essays @FeminStream /Art/ Natela's photos tell about women who are not visible to the society or media and whose biographies are connected to the traditions and oppressing culture. [external_media:soundcloud.com/hbf-south-caucasus/feminstream-9] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Mother of Georgia and its Critique @FeminStream /Art/ Mother of Georgia and its analogues, creatures of socialist realism, represent illustration of women's stereotypical identity in the respective cultures. [external_media:soundcloud.com/hbf-south-caucasus/feminstream-5] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Museum? @FeminStream /Art/ Women's bodies and the history of visual arts - radical feminist collective, Gurilla Girls addressed this issue with famous poster. [external_media:soundcloud.com/hbf-south-caucasus/feminstream-1] By Khatuna Khabuliani
Female Characters in Revaz Inanishvili's Creations In the Georgian literature, female characters are mainly burdened with symbolic meanings while representing mothers, seducers, muses or victims, sometimes even referring to oppressed Georgia. Revaz Inanishvili's work is very exceptional and introduces very different female characters. By Tika Tsiklauri
Women's Art versus Feminist Art: Categories and Contradictions in Practices of Armenian Art It would not be superfluous to note that some women artists were the protagonists of a style characterized as strongman painting, one heavily invested with simulations of male artistic practices, and which adhered to the aesthetic models common to Armenian traditional painting and art. By Susanna Gyulamiryan