n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
a separate version - now available in print ! (issn 1461-0434)

ISSN 1462-0426

More exemplary feminist theory and art criticism on contemporary women's art practice
Articles, Interviews, Special Features, Artists' Pages, Reviews of Books and Web-sites.
Published bi-annually since 1998 in Jan, July. 96 pages, 50 + black and white illus. 4 colour page insert.

A 16-page printed index of the contents of Volumes 1-9 (1998-2002) and issue numbers 1-15 (1996-2002) is now available.

To order any or all Volumes or the index for yourself or your University or College Library, contact : k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk

Current Volume: Volume 16: Families/Homilies July 2006

• Contents: Assumpta Bassas 'S.O.S.: Searching for the Mother in the Family Album: Fina Miralles, Eugenia Balcells and Cori Mercadé'
• Nancy Buchanan 'In Security'
• Tessa Adams 'Andrea Duncan: Passionate Engagements'
• Fran Marno, with poems by Heather McPherson 'Downunder art culture: surviving a slide into hetero-blandness in New Zealand'
• Eva Khachatrian 'The Eighth of March Women’s Dialogue in Armenia'
• Merav Yerushalmy 'Alternative Views – Utopian Relations and Relational Practices in the Work of Nan Goldin, Yvonne Dröge Wendel and Andrea Zittel'
• Claudia-Maria Luenig and Eleni Laperi '“Walking on Green Grass” An Albanian Encounter'
• Kim Dhillon 'The Site of Production Maja Bajevic’s New Work in Sarajevo'
• Women Artists at 51st Venice Biennale Always a little Further and The Experience of Art: National Pavilions and Collatoral Event
• Joanna Frueh 'Daughter of the Sunshine Fairies'
• Mila Bredikhina 'Gender Troubles: 1st Moscow Biennale'
• Artist’s Pages Ellen McMahon 'A Little Bit of Loss' and Mako Idemitsu 'Kae, Act Like a Girl!'

Volume 15 Scientific Ethics/Aesthetics January 2005

• Contents:‘Resistance that cannot be recognised as such’ Suzana Milevska interviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Rebecca Jennison ‘Borderline Cases:Women on the Borderlines’ in Japan/Korea
• Susan Richmond ‘Sizing Up the Dildo: Lynda Benglis’ 1974 Artforum Advertisement as a Feminist Icon’
• Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky ‘Time and Biorhythms: Chronobiological Issues in the Art of Chen Lingyang’
• Barbara Maria Stafford ‘Hedonics: Pleasure, Pain and the Neurobiology of Feeling’
• Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez ‘Balaybay: Addressing the Volatile: the work of Kasibulan (in The Phillippines)’
• Katarzyna Kosmala ‘On the Ways of Being (Un)altered:‘Little Deaths’ in the Video Installation Art of Hanna Nowicka and Alicja Zebrowska’
• Miren Eraso ‘How Critical Feminism and Queer Practices Coexist Today’
• Eva Heisler ‘Of Landmarks and Birthmarks:the work of Katrín Sigurdardóttir’
• Katy Deepwell ‘Jane Prophet’s Imaginary Organs of a Cyborg’
• Artist’s Pages: Gisela Weimann ‘Cow School: Guidelines for Classes’; Martha Fleming ‘Atomism and Animism’; Nell Tenhaaf ‘Fit/Unfit’; Mi Magazine presents Katerina Matsoukis

Volume 14 Dreams of the Future July 2004

• Contents: Jieun Rhee From Goddess to Cyborg: Lee Bul and Mariko Mori
• Flying Spy Potatoes and Hacktivism: Angela Dimitrakaki interviews Jenny Marketou
• Artist’s Pages Olga Kisseleva Seven Deadly Desires and Power Bike with a text by Ekaterina Iragui.
• Andrea Liss Maternal Rites: Feminist Strategies (in the work of Mierle Ukeles, Ellen McMahon and Gail Rebhan).
• Mysoon Rizk Neutralised Disclosure: Deflecting the Gaze in Contemporary Syrian Art: Sara Shamma and Maha Mahayni
• Artist’s Pages Suzanne Treister Operation Swan Lake
• The Future is always an Idea: Katya Andreyeva interviews Olga Chernysheva
• Paula Smithard The Story of Another Eye: Helen Chadwick
• Julie Ault, Honey Biba Beckerlee and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld in conversation about The Danish Art Academy’s 96th Anniversary and Dreams of feminist revolt in the academy
• Women Artists at Dak’Art 2004 Biennial of Contemporary African Art. Featuring: Toyosi Odunsi, Michele Magema, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Sue Williamson, Pelagie Gbaguidi, Fatma Charfi, Maha Maamoun, Samta Benyahia
• Sandra L. Esslinger Tornadoes in a Box: the work of Susan Silton
• Photo feature on Momentum: Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, 2004
• Photo feature on Manifesta 5: European Art Biennial

Volume 13 Domestic Politics January 2004

• Contents: Judith Batalion Cracking the domestic: Collaborations among women artists
• Rosemary Betterton Spaces of Memory: Photographic Practices of Home and Exile in the work of Breda Beban
• Julia Schäfer Trautes Heim/ Cosy Home: Interviews with Pia Lanzinger, Moira Zoitl, Isa Rosenberger, Sofie Thorsen and Dorit Margreiter
• Katarina Steenbæk Western: Terms of Use
• Flaudette May V. Datuin Sitting Pretty: The Sofa as a Dis/Comfort Zone in Paintings by Chinese and Filipina Artists
• Nicole Schweizer WARSPACE: an interview with Miriam Cahn
• Ann Huber-Sigwart Nalini Malani: Political Metaphors
• Alexandra M. Kokoli Undoing "homeliness" in feminist art/ Feministo: Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife (1975-1977)
• Christine Conley Touching Home: An Interview with May Chan
• Helen Petrovsky ‘I Can Be a Housewife’: An Interview with Masha Chuikova
• Artist’s Pages: Fran Cottell Still Live and Marjolaine Ryley Villa Mona – A Proper Kind of House.

Volume 12 Out of Order July 2003

The fourth of 4 volumes supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

• Contents: Marian Mazzone The Radical Body of Vlasta Delimar
• Re-reading High Performance: Jennie Klein interviews curator Jenni Sorkin
• Mirjam Westen Jeanne van Heeswijk: The Artist as Versatile Infiltrator of Public Space: "Urban Curating" in the 21st Century
• Valentina Vitali Between Art and Cinema : A Conversation with Shirin Neshat
• Olesya Turkina Russian Bodies/Feminist Terms: Elena Kovylina and Angelina Virgina
• Transitional Zones: Nicole Wolf interviews Tejal Shah
• Aneta Szylak The Female Allergen: Dorota Nieznalska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zofia Kulik,Monika Mamzeta, Julita Wojcik
• Performing Provocation: Katy Deepwell interviews Karen Finley.
• Features on 3 major exhibitions: Architectures of Gender: Women’s Art in Poland; (Sculpture Center, New York); Women Artists at the 50th Venice Biennale - The Dictatorship of the Viewer; From my Fingers: Living in the Technological Age (Kaoshiung Museum, Taiwan)
• Artist’s Pages by: Nao Bustamante (in collaboration with Miguel Calderon) The Chain South and Orlan Manifesto of Carnal Art/L’Art Charnel, Refiguration/Self-Hybridation series and other works

Volume 11 Identities/ Identification Mechanisms January 2003

The third of 4 volumes supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

• Articles: Nancy Hynes Lines in the Sand: An Interview with Joan Jonas
• Darlene Lee A Bid for Empowerment: Feminist Artists in Beijing, China
• Biljana Kasic Re-thinking the Imaginary of Home(s)
• Annika Öhrner Annika by the Sea: A project by Annica Karlsson Rixon
• Margo Thompson Finding the Phallus in US Female Body Imagery
• Pamela Allara The Hierarchy of Touch: Reflections on Leora Farber’s Four Minor Renovations
• Leora Farber Working on and About the Body
• Jasmine Rault Reconceptualising Healthy Subjectivity: the Difference between Sinking and Swimming: the work of Brenda Longfellow and Monique Genton
• Gayatri Sinha Across the Border: A Dialogue with Naazish Ata-Ullah
• Katrin Kivimaa Present Histories and Missing Voices: A review of Renee Baigell and Matthew Baigall’s Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures:Women Artists in Post-Soviet Russia, Estonia and Latvia
• plus Short Book Reviews
• Artist’s Pages:- Katharina Sieverding Die Sonne um Mitternacht shauen: Hongmeilu/Shanghai; Stef Engel Do You Feel Like a Great Artist? Anna Alchuk Figures of the Law II

Current Volume: Volume 10, Rethinking Revolution, July 2002

The second of 4 volumes supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

• Articles:- Nina Czegledy in conversation with Randy Cutler, Shilpa Gupta, Eleni Laperi, Nathalie Magnan, Maria Miranda,
  Norie Neumark, Susanna Paasonen Rethinking Female Experience(s)
• Tomur Atagök in conversation with Gülsün Karamustafa, Inci Eviner and Nur Koçak Turkish Women Artists and Feminism
• Joanna Frueh in conversation with Tanya Augsburg, Maria Elena Buszek and Jill O’Bryan The Pink of Revolution
• Mónica Mayer The Revolution of the Comadres
• Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen in conversation with Victoria Lu, Jun Lai, Mali Wu, Lulu Hou, Hungjun Shieh,
  Hweilan Chang and Teyu Wang Rethinking Revolution in Taiwan
• Thoughts on Women and Revolution
• Women Artists in Manifesta 4 and Documenta 11: an analysis and photographs.
• Michèle Cohen Hadria A Tale of Invisibility: Self Portrait: Palestinian Women’s Art
• Curating New Narratives: Katy Deepwell interviews Ute Meta Bauer
• Bojana Pejic The Morning After: Plavi Radion, Abstract Art and Bananas
• c.j.fleury Co-creative models of art and feminist law in the Templates for Activism project
• Miki Kanai Website Reviews
• Artist’s Pages: Agnieszka Wolodzko TRANSASIA

Volume 9 (Eco)Logical, January 2002

The first of 4 volumes supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

• Articles:- Collection: Pennina Barnett interviews Weibke Siem
• Maria Fernandez Heart and Hearth: Enduring Domesticity and Memorial Display on the work of Leslie Hakim-Dowek
• Ann Rosenthal Bridging the Binaries: Assessing Ecoart Practices within the Context of Environmental Activism at WASTE
• Katya Andreyev Some Types of Clothing The work of Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya
• Masque, Residence pour la Nuit Bisi Silva interviews Pelagie Gbaguidi and Myriam Mihindou
• Cornelia Hesse-Honneger Leaf Bugs, Radioactivity and Art
• Reverie, Osmose and Ephémère Carol Gigliotti interviews Char Davies
• Egofugal: Women Artists at the 7th Istanbul Biennial Interviews with Henrietta Lehtonen, Rachel Berwick, Joyce Hinterding, Louise (and Jane) Wilson, Maya Bajevic
• Dialogue: Ann Huber-Sigwart interviews Shelly Silver
• Artists' pages from Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA), Hale Tenger (Turkey), Fiona Hall (Australia).

Volume 8 Economies/Exchanges, July 2001

• Ursula Biemann Female Geobodies: Resignifying the Economic within Sexual Difference
• Susan Lawson Irreconciliable Différance: Ode/Owed to Cornelia Parker
• Nataša Ilic Sanja Ivekovic’s Lady Rosa of Luxembourg
• Mila Bredikhina Representational Practices of Women Artists in Moscow in the 1990s
• Residencies and Exchanges: Experiences from the UK’s Year of the Artist programme
• Ute Vorkoeper A Gentle Space – on involvement, personal freedom and exchanges in get that balance
• Mea Culpa: Katy Deepwell interviews Mary Kelly
• Marsha J. Tyson Darling Gendered Globalization, State Interests, Women of Color and Marginalized Women
• Jana Gerzová Art and the Question of Gender in Slovakia
• Valerie Reardon Bettina Semmer’s Assisted Painting series Perhaps by Means of Gesture.
• Artists’ Pages from Araya Rasdarmrearnsook (Thailand) Readings to Corpses ; Sub-Rosa (USA) The Economies of A.R.T; Emily Jacir (Palestine/USA) My America (I'm Still here).

Volume 7, Urban Fictions, January 2001

• Interviews with Lea Kantonen (Finland) about her installation/ performance projects, The Tent and The Mother
• Alison Marchant (UK) on her digital print/ billboard project East Londoners by Jennifer Simonds  
• Narratives of Migration: statements and projects by Sanjot Kaur Sekhon (Australia); Li Xui Chen (China)
• Christine Ross (Canada) writes about Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland) latest video installations
• Taava Koskinen writes about the projects of Minna Heikinaho (Finland)
• Karen Bermann (USA) Elements of the Month of Our Dying
• Nicole Schweizer (Switzerland) An Encounter with Eva Aeppli  
• Monika Mitasova (Czech Republic/Slovakia) This Chore/a/a Which is Not one: Notes on Post-Socialist Female Urban Fantasies in Progress
• Doina Petrescu (France/Romania) Feminine practices of Transition or How Six Pairs of Dancing Children Generate Urban Change 
• Reviews of the exhibitions Cross Female  Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin. 
• Interviews with artists included in Ecbatana : Artists from the Middle East Nikolaj Church, Denmark, namely, Ghazel, Mona Hatoum, Jananne El-Ani, Zineb Sedira
• Plus Artists' Pages from Maja Bajevic Black on White (Bosnia-Herzogovina); Icelandic Love Corporation Blow Job;  Mary McIntyre (Ireland); Lyudmila Gorlova (Russia); Regina (Germany).
• and Book Reviews 

Volume 6, Desire and the Gaze, July 2000

• The World Wants Your Desire Martina Pachmanova interviews Kaja Silverman
• Marsha Meskimmon Jenny Holzer's Lustmord and the project of resonant criticism
• Leonida Kovac Whose Body? Whose Desire? on Kataryna Kozyra and Orshi Drodzik
• Tee A. Corinne Who’s Looking, What are They Seeing?
• Anne Hamlyn reviews Textures of Memory
• Text and Sub-Text Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA, Singapore
• Gail Bourgeois Acts of Making and Embodied Margins: amour-horreur
• All You Need is Love: interviews with Maureen Connor and Marita Liulia
• Sanne Kafod Olsen Oriental Fantasies: New Works by Gülsün Karamustafa
• Gayatris Sinha Desire and the Gaze of Devi
• Susan Douglas What is Given to Be Seen: Lori Newdick
• Catherine Grant Performativity: Collier Schorr, Anna Gaskell, Sarah Jones

  Plus Artists’ Pages: Barbara Hammer History Lessons ; Vita Bujvid Secret Desires;

  Carolee Schneemann Vulva’s Morphia

Volume 5, About Time, January 2000

• Louise Parsons Digging for Gold: Lessons from Sally Potter's The Golddiggers
• Moira Roth Interview with Lynn Hershmann
• Shirley MacWilliam A Snapshot of Performance and Video: Editing, Punctuation and Self in Frances Hegarty'sAutoPortrait and Abigail Davies' Instant Exposure
• Lisa Bloom Gender, Nationalism and Internationalism in Japanese Contemporary Art
• Katy Deepwell Interview with Bojana Pejic curator of After the Wall
• Hilary Robinson interviews Linda Montano
• Christina van Braun Engendering the Imago, Imagining Gender
• Martha Wilson The Personal becomes Political in Time
• plus 5 performance scripts and photo-documentation by 5 women performance artists:-
• Tanya Mars Pure Virtue; Esther Ferrer Performance Art; Bobby Baker Drawing on A Mother's Experience; Pauline Cummins Unearthed; Rummana Hussain Is It What You Think?
• Artist's Pages by Alicja Zebrowska, Yoshiko Shimada and Bubu.

Supported by a Live Arts Publication Grant, Arts Council of England.

Volume 4, Sculpture & Installation, July 1999

• Doris Berger interview with Renée Green on Between and Including
• Kerstin Mey Bodies of Substance: on the Work of Margaret Hunter, Azade Koker, Ping Qui
• Susan N.Kiguli interviews Lilian Nabulime
• Katy Deepwell interviews Suzanne Lacy on New Genre Public Art
• Val Walsh interviews Lorna Green Sites/Sights to slow you down
• Betsy Damon The Living Water Garden,Chengdu, China
• Sarah Wilson Discovering the Psyche: Zofia Kulik
• Ann Lumbye Sorensen Under Influence: Recent Work by Lone Hoyer Hansen
• Alicia Haber On the Work of Agueda Dicancro
• Lilianne Lijn She: Representing the Female Form
• Yvonne Volkart War Zone: Bodies Identities and Femininity in the High-Tech industry: Ursula Biemann's Performing the Border
• Varsha Nair Womanifesto II, Bangkok.
• Special feature on women artists at the Venice Biennale
• Artist's Pages - Sanja Ivekovic Women's House ; Laura Godfey Isaacs There's a Mad Woman in the Attic
  

Volume 3, Body, Space and Memory, January 1999

• Artists' Pages from Susan Hinnum, Lou Ann Greenwald, Edda Strobl and Sonja Gangl
  as part of Steirischer Herbst's Art & Global Media Project
• Anne Marsh Performing Histories and the Myth of Place: A Female Menace
• Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger Trauma and Beauty: Trans-Subjectivity in Art
• Katy Deepwell Interview with Kirsten Justesen
• Alyce Mahon on Unica Zürn and an extract from Unica Zürn's The Man of Jasmine
• Renée Beart Materializing Memory - The Clothing Works of Faye HeavyShield
• Joan Borsa Performing Interconnectedness: The Catharsis of Aganetha Dyck, Ann Hamilton & Susan Shantz
• Angelika Beckmann on Ursula Kraft
  Plus reviews of books, CD-Roms, exhibitions.

Volume 2, Women and New Media, July 1998

• Faith Wilding Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism?
• Susanna Paasonen Digital, Human, Animal, PLANT : The politics of cyberfeminism?
• Marina Grzinic Media & Body Politics
• Irina Aktuganova Feminism is This Word
• Oleysa Turkina Unmasking
• Vera Frenkel The Institute OR What we do for Love
• Alla Mitrofanova Pregnancy as a Philosophical Problem
• Angelika Beckmann Women Artists at ZKM,Karlsruhe
• Interview: Sara Diamond interviewed by Lynn Bell & Carol Williams
• Plus reviews of Suchan Kinoshita, Kate Craig, Catherine Elwes, Christine Tamblyn, Adrienne Jenik.
• Plus Artists' Pages by Helen Sear, Roshini Kempadoo, Gina Czarnecki, Melanie Manchot.

Volume 1, Feminism/Post Feminism, January 1998

• Liz Ellis Do you want to be in My Gang? Ethics in Young British Art
• Joanna Frueh Dressing Aphrodite
• n.paradoxa interview with Catherine de Zegher, Curator of Inside the Visible
• Hilary Robinson Nine Snapshots from Ireland
• Katy Deepwell Feminist Aesthetics in An International Frame
• Shelley Hornstein on Narelle Jubelin
• Tomur Atagok reviews the work of women artists in the Istanbul Biennale and the situation of contemporary Turkish Women Artists
• Artists' Pages by Chila Burman, Lucretia Knapp & Kara Lynch
• Book reviews, Web-site reviews and Suggestions for a new Curriculum