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This page offers a Chronological List of Manifestos on/by/or about feminism and women artists
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This list was researched in preparation for the Feminist Art Seminar at the ICA on 30 March 2011, organised by Katy Deepwell as a collaboration between the ICA and n.paradoxa. Links are given, where known, to websites where the material is directly available.
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Valentine de Saint Point The Manifesto of Futurist Woman (Response to F. T. Marinetti) (1912)
Valentine de Saint Point ‘Futurist Manifesto of Lust’ (11 Jan 1913) and also available here
Mina Loy ‘Feminist Manifesto’ (1914) unfinished and not published til 1982 in Mina Loy The Lost Lunar Baedeker. Sequel to her ‘Aphorisms for the Future’ (1914) in Bonnie Kime Scott (ed) The Gender of Modernism (1990)
Yvonne Rainer ‘No Manifesto’ (1965) reproduced in her book Feelings are Facts: A Life (MIT press, 2006). Or consult this website to read it.
Valerie Solanas ‘SCUM manifesto’ (1969)
Nancy Spero ‘Feminist Manifesto’ (1970-1971) from R. Arkestejn (ed) CODEX SPERO: Nancy Spero, selected writings and interviews 1950-2008 (Roma Publications, 2008)
Monique Wittig, Gilles Wittig, Marcia Rothenberg and Margaret Stephenson ‘Combat pour la liberation del a femme’ (L’Idiot International (Paris) May 1970 pp.12-16) p.184 precedes Monique Wittig’s Les Guerrilleres. Passages translated in English in Janet Lyon Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern (Cornell University Press, 1999).
The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program, and Organizational Structure (1967) available from Red Letter Press
Redstockings Manifesto (1969/1970). 'The Redstockings Manifesto' was written by an unknown author, and used by the Women’s Liberation Party in 1969
Agnes Denes A MANIFESTO (1970)
'Manifesto of Women Students and Artists for Black Liberation' (WSABAL) (1970) written by Faith Ringgold and Michele Wallace. A legible picture of the original typescript of this manifesto can be found in Carey Lovelace's online essay 'Making it Together'.
Chicago Anarcho-Feminists 'Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements' (from Siren, 1971)' Who we are: An Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto' and 'Blood Of The Flower: An Anarchist-Feminist Statement'
Monica Sjoo and Anne Berg ‘Towards a Revolutionary Art’ (1971-2). A copy of this rare pamphlet is in the British Library. It is republished in n.paradoxa volume 28 pp.64-67. Available in print only.
Valie EXPORT ‘Women, Art: A Manifesto’ (1972) reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996) and in Helena Reckitt (ed) Feminism and Art (Phaidon)
Mierle Ladermann Ukeles ‘Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969: Proposal for an exhibition “CARE”’ (1967)
Rita Mae Brown ‘A Manifesto for the Feminist Artist’ From The Furies, Lesbian/Feminist Monthly, Volume 1, issue 5, June-July 1972 (posted Tue, 06/09/2009 - 20:16 — Julie)
The Artists’ Union: ‘Women’s Workshop Manifesto’ (Almost Free Theatre, London 1973)
Carolee Schneemann ‘Woman in the Year 2000’ reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996).
Jenny Holzer ‘Truisms’ (1980-1990)
'The Manifesto of Women Artists of Pakistan' (1983) reproduced in Salima Hashmi Unveiling the Visible: Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan (2002)
Mierle Ukeles ‘Sanitation Manifesto’ (1984), also reproduced in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996)
Donna Haraway ‘Manifesto for Cyborgs’ (1985) First published in Socialist Review No 80 1985. Reprinted in Linda Nicholson (ed) Feminism/Postmodernism (Routledge, 1991). Republished in Amelia Jones (ed) The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (London: Routledge, 2003)
Veronica Vera, Candida Royale, Annie Sprinkle ‘Post-Porn Manifesto’ (1989)
Lesbian Avengers of New York Civil Organising Project ‘Out Against Right: The Dyke Manifesto: basic principles’ (1992-1994)
Beatriz Preciado Manifeste contrasexuel/Contrasexual Manifesto
Also known as Manifiesto contra-sexual/Kontrasexuelles Manifest (Paris: Editions Ballard, 2000) – see discussion in G.Ankele ‘Post-Porn Politics’ n.paradoxa volume 25 (Pleasure) 2010
THE MANIFESTO: Eva and Co. (c. 1992)
RIOT GRRRL MANIFESTO. The Riot Grrrl Movement began in the early 1990s by Washington State band Bikini Kill and lead singer Kathleen Hanna.
'East German Feminists: Lila Manifesto' republished in English in Feminist Studies v.16 (Fall 1990) pp.621-634
VNS Matrix ‘Bitch Mutant Manifesto’ (c.1994) reproduced in n.paradoxa issue 4 online issue 4, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal August 1997, republished, January 2010
Violetta Liagatchev ‘Constitution Intempestive de la République Internationale des Artistes Femme’ issue 3, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal May 1997/Jan 2010.
Natasha Vita-More ‘Extropic Art Manifesto of Transhumanist Arts’ (1997)
Old Boys Network ‘100 anti-theses on cyberfeminism’Dora García 100 Impossible Artworks (2001) (reproduced in a press release for a 2010 show at MUSAC Collection, León.)
SubRosa refugia: manifesto for becoming autunomous zones (BAZ) (2002)
Orlan ‘Carnal Art Manifesto’ reproduced in n.paradoxa vol 12 (Out of order) 2003 p.44
Meike Schmidt-Gleim and Mieke Verloo 'ONE MORE FEMINIST MANIFESTO OF THE POLITICAL'
IWM Working Paper No. 2/2003 Vienna 2003
ARCO Manifesto (2005) Published in Spanish at ARCO, IFEMA, Madrid (Xavier Arakistain)
Lida Sherafatmand ‘Humanitarian Art Manifesto’ (2004-2010) (published online, 30Sept 2010, Kimpavitapress)
Mette Ingvartsen ‘Yes Manifesto’ (2006) reproduced in Astrid Peterle ‘The Performances of Mette Ingvartsen the pleasures of depersonalized bodies, bouncing trampolines and evaporated landscapes’ n.paradoxa vol 25 (Pleasure) 2010 p.37
Manifesto of the Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering Toujours RebELLEs / Waves of Resistance, Montreal, October 13, 2008
Lindsey German 'A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century' (2010) Posted In Eclectics
Any comments or suggestions to add to this list or give sources where known to other feminist art manifestos, please contact: ktpress@ktpress.co.uk