The Feminist Salon
Sharon Billinge, Louise Burchill, Angie de Latour, Inez de Vega, Victoria Duckett, Catherine Evans, Janice Gobey, Kate Hodgetts, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Sarah Lynch, Caroline Phillips, Hannah Raisin, Caroline Thew, Valentina Palonen and Jane Whitfid
24 May → 29 May 2010

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‘The Feminist Salon Residency: The Envelope’, 2010, week long residency by the The Feminist Salon, Reading group: West Space, Anthony St, 2010. Image courtesy of West Space.

The Feminist Salon is a group of artists, writers and performers who meet regularly to read and discuss the texts of French theorists working in and around issues of contemporary psychoanalytic discourse, philosophy and constructions of ‘the feminine’. The Envelope residency at the West Wing is inspired by Luce Irigaray’s thoughtful, poetic and ultimately empowering proposition of ‘The Envelope’ as a space where identity, desire, sexuality and meaning can be constructed. This week-long residency engages this new space and the public with numerous possibilities of discussion, sensorial experience, performance, film, sound and visual art.

Participants include Sharon Billinge, Dr. Louise Burchill, Angie de Latour, Inez de Vega, Victoria Duckett, Catherine Evans, Janice Gobey, Kate Hodgetts, Kate Just, Anastasia Klose, Sarah Lynch, Caroline Phillips, Hannah Raisin, Caroline Thew, Valentina Palonen and Jane Whitfid.

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Sharon Billinge is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Dr Louise Burchill

Angie de Latour

Inez de Vega is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Victoria Duckett

Catherine Evans

Janice Gobey is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Kate Hodgetts

Kate Just is a feminist artist known for her inventive and political use of knitting. In addition to her solo practice, Just often works socially and collaboratively within communities to create large scale, public or textile based art projects that tackle significant social issues including gender-based violence, reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA rights and political protest.

Anastasia Klose is an artist from Melbourne now in Mossman, Queensland. Anastasia works across video, performance and installation art, and is known for her lo-fi production aesthetics that include generic editing software, handwritten signage and public domain fonts and texts.

Sarah Lynch is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Caroline Phillips is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Hannah Raisin is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Caroline Thew

Valentina Palonen

Jane Whitfid is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.