Angela Dimitrakaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1489037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Dimitrakaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimitrakaki |
| SIGNATURE | DIMITRAKAKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1281-5947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Feminist Critique of Capitalism: Class, Gender, Work, and Unrest in Women’s Art after 2008
This article considers the shift from ‘patriarchy’ to ‘capitalism’ in the work of contemporary artists who engage feminist critique. This shift, it is argued, is expressed in a politics of representation that centers on labour, and in particular how gender’s articulation - in terms of bodies or values - informs the inscription of class. The four artworks on which I will focus come from 2010, that is, as the impact of the 2008 global financial cri…
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Defeat: The Common and the Revolutionary Practice in the Pandemics
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the com-mon and it’s possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a po…
Lewica pozostawiona z Tina: Sztuka, alienacja i antykomunizm
Prezentowany artykuł śledzi, w jaki sposób współczesne pole sztuki bywa nawiedzane przez kulturową i polityczną wyobraźnię właściwą dla czasów po 1989 roku, a uchwyconą w powieści Douglasa Couplanda Pokolenie X: Opowieści na czasy przyśpieszającej kultury (1991, 1998). Książka ta okazała się formacyjna z uwagi na prezentowane w niej stanowisko antypracy, jak również narrację wycofania w podziwie dla procesów przyspieszenia, która opisywała, jak z…
Anti-fascism/Art/Theory: An Introduction to What Hurts Us
The article is intended as a broad contextualisation of the political concerns that underpin the special issue Anti-fascism/Art/Theory as the second decade of the twenty-first century is drawing to a close. Over a decade after the global financial crisis, we find ourselves confronted with a complex, transnational ideological and material reality where identifiable traits of fascism command fringe and mainstream milieus and where anti-fascist mili…
Anti-fascist Art Theory: A Roundtable Discussion
The conversation that follows, among three art theorists whose work focuses on emancipatory politics on the left and who participated together in recent art events in Europe examining the resurgence of fascist politics, poses this question: what might be the connection between the increasing normalisation of a political landscape strewn with fascist elements and the complex positioning of art between (or possibly, across) the status quo and its s…
Social Reproduction Struggles and Art History: An Introduction
The article explores social reproduction as a key term in expanding the purview of art history in relation to the social urgencies of the early twenty-first century and feminist struggles. Providing a context for the approaches to social reproduction and art in the specific journal issue, the analysis makes a case for a methodological shift that would see feminist art history coming closer to a history of labour. But this, the authors argue, impl…
Como des/articular um sistema: Repetição e diferença no trabalho de Maria Lucia Cattani
O artigo comenta o trabalho de Maria Lucia Cattani a partir de conceitos como repetição, diferença e identificação, em que os signos elaborados nos trabalhos reconfiguram repetição e diferença como dois territórios possivelmente sobrepostos no espaço da arte, em um processo de trabalho desdobrado no tempo
How to dis/articulate a system: Repetition and difference in the work of Maria Lucia Cattani
The article poses comments on the works by Maria Lucia Cattani, drawing from concepts such as repetition and difference and identification, in which the signs developed in the work reconfigure repetition and difference as two possibly overlapping territories in the space of art, in a work process unfolded in time
The 2008 Effect: Thoughts on Art World Feminism in the Shadow of Global Capitalism
Since 2008, the inaugural year of an ongoing ‘crisis’, globalization has strongly emerged as an economic, rather than cultural, reality in the making – principally through a conflict between capital and labour. As feminism tackles the gendered division of labour, what kind of context does ‘the 2008 effect’ illuminate for the struggle to end gender and sex-based oppression, and how are feminist narratives of art contributing to this struggle? With…
Marxism, Art and the Histories of Latin America: An Interview with David Craven
Art, Globalisation and the Exhibition Form: What is the Case, What is the Challenge
Beginning with a critique of Thierry de Duve's return to Kantian aesthetics in order to rescue art from a commodified culture exemplified by the art biennial, this article argues that the globalised proliferation of biennials is a symptom of a broader problem: the hegemony of the exhibition form in the public's encounter with art. The analysis focuses on the concept of globalisation and what it hides from view; participatory art and the post-docu…
Materialist Feminism for the Twenty-first Century: The Video Essays of Ursula Biemann
Journal Article Materialist Feminism for the Twenty-first Century: The Video Essays of Ursula Biemann Get access Angela Dimitrakaki Angela Dimitrakaki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 205–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcm006 Published: 01 June 2007
Five o’clock on the sun’: Three Questions on Feminism and the Moving Image in the Visual Arts of Non‐Western Europe
Involving extensive fieldwork in various European archives, the article examines women's engagement with film and video as art across diverse spaces of non-western Europe. The article pursues an original angle by discussing Estonia, Hungary and Greece in the same context. The aim is to displace the exclusive function of the former 'eastern' bloc (masking differences between discrete 'eastern' realities) as the token European periphery with regard…
Art and Politics Continued: Avant-garde, Resistance and the Multitude in Documenta 11
The article examines the wider ideological framework operative in one of the most important events of the contemporary international art scene: Documenta 11 in Kassel in 2002. The author considers various aspects of Documenta 11, which is not however approached as a group art show but as a curatorial initiative responding to the challenge of 'globalisation' as orchestrated by capital and the networks of resistance to the latter. The author consid…
(Post)modernism and Feminist Art History The Reception of the Male Nude in Twentieth‐century Greek Painting
This article, based on the author's PhD (Reading University, UK, 2000), examines the processes and discourses leading to a hegemonic framework of meaning in art history and criticism in 20th-century Greece. The ideological construct of the periphery (versus an assumed centre), the quest for a national subject in art and the inconclusive debates on modernism and postmodernism constitute key issues in this enquiry, which takes as its case study the…
Terminators, Monkeys and Mass Culture: The carnival of time in science fiction films
This article is concerned with time in science fiction films. Our contention is that the current fascination with the time travel motif can be understood in terms of an oppositional cultural narrative running counter to dominant forms of temporality within capitalism. Such a reading allows us to negotiate the wide (mass) appeal of films based on the time travel motif without resorting to the primal scene fantasy. Our argument challenges the views…
Mona Hatoum: A shock of a different kind
Yoko Ono: Have you seen the horizon lately
About Di/vision/s
The unthinkable is the unknowable: Ten years after Chernobyl
Elements of a secret history: Women, art and gender in modern Greece
Social Reproduction Struggles and Art History: An Introduction
The article explores social reproduction as a key term in expanding the purview of art history in relation to the social urgencies of the early twenty-first century and feminist struggles. Providing a context for the approaches to social reproduction and art in the specific journal issue, the analysis makes a case for a methodological shift that would see feminist art history coming closer to a history of labour. But this, the authors argue, impl…
Terminators, Monkeys and Mass Culture: The carnival of time in science fiction films
This article is concerned with time in science fiction films. Our contention is that the current fascination with the time travel motif can be understood in terms of an oppositional cultural narrative running counter to dominant forms of temporality within capitalism. Such a reading allows us to negotiate the wide (mass) appeal of films based on the time travel motif without resorting to the primal scene fantasy. Our argument challenges the views…
Anti-fascism/Art/Theory: An Introduction to What Hurts Us
The article is intended as a broad contextualisation of the political concerns that underpin the special issue Anti-fascism/Art/Theory as the second decade of the twenty-first century is drawing to a close. Over a decade after the global financial crisis, we find ourselves confronted with a complex, transnational ideological and material reality where identifiable traits of fascism command fringe and mainstream milieus and where anti-fascist mili…
The 2008 Effect: Thoughts on Art World Feminism in the Shadow of Global Capitalism
Since 2008, the inaugural year of an ongoing ‘crisis’, globalization has strongly emerged as an economic, rather than cultural, reality in the making – principally through a conflict between capital and labour. As feminism tackles the gendered division of labour, what kind of context does ‘the 2008 effect’ illuminate for the struggle to end gender and sex-based oppression, and how are feminist narratives of art contributing to this struggle? With…
Art, Globalisation and the Exhibition Form: What is the Case, What is the Challenge
Beginning with a critique of Thierry de Duve's return to Kantian aesthetics in order to rescue art from a commodified culture exemplified by the art biennial, this article argues that the globalised proliferation of biennials is a symptom of a broader problem: the hegemony of the exhibition form in the public's encounter with art. The analysis focuses on the concept of globalisation and what it hides from view; participatory art and the post-docu…
Art and Politics Continued: Avant-garde, Resistance and the Multitude in Documenta 11
The article examines the wider ideological framework operative in one of the most important events of the contemporary international art scene: Documenta 11 in Kassel in 2002. The author considers various aspects of Documenta 11, which is not however approached as a group art show but as a curatorial initiative responding to the challenge of 'globalisation' as orchestrated by capital and the networks of resistance to the latter. The author consid…
The unthinkable is the unknowable: Ten years after Chernobyl
Elements of a secret history: Women, art and gender in modern Greece
About Di/vision/s
Mona Hatoum: A shock of a different kind
Yoko Ono: Have you seen the horizon lately
Terminators, Monkeys and Mass Culture: The carnival of time in science fiction films
This article is concerned with time in science fiction films. Our contention is that the current fascination with the time travel motif can be understood in terms of an oppositional cultural narrative running counter to dominant forms of temporality within capitalism. Such a reading allows us to negotiate the wide (mass) appeal of films based on the time travel motif without resorting to the primal scene fantasy. Our argument challenges the views…
Art and Politics Continued: Avant-garde, Resistance and the Multitude in Documenta 11
The article examines the wider ideological framework operative in one of the most important events of the contemporary international art scene: Documenta 11 in Kassel in 2002. The author considers various aspects of Documenta 11, which is not however approached as a group art show but as a curatorial initiative responding to the challenge of 'globalisation' as orchestrated by capital and the networks of resistance to the latter. The author consid…
(Post)modernism and Feminist Art History The Reception of the Male Nude in Twentieth‐century Greek Painting
This article, based on the author's PhD (Reading University, UK, 2000), examines the processes and discourses leading to a hegemonic framework of meaning in art history and criticism in 20th-century Greece. The ideological construct of the periphery (versus an assumed centre), the quest for a national subject in art and the inconclusive debates on modernism and postmodernism constitute key issues in this enquiry, which takes as its case study the…
Five o’clock on the sun’: Three Questions on Feminism and the Moving Image in the Visual Arts of Non‐Western Europe
Involving extensive fieldwork in various European archives, the article examines women's engagement with film and video as art across diverse spaces of non-western Europe. The article pursues an original angle by discussing Estonia, Hungary and Greece in the same context. The aim is to displace the exclusive function of the former 'eastern' bloc (masking differences between discrete 'eastern' realities) as the token European periphery with regard…
Materialist Feminism for the Twenty-first Century: The Video Essays of Ursula Biemann
Journal Article Materialist Feminism for the Twenty-first Century: The Video Essays of Ursula Biemann Get access Angela Dimitrakaki Angela Dimitrakaki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 205–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcm006 Published: 01 June 2007
Marxism, Art and the Histories of Latin America: An Interview with David Craven
Art, Globalisation and the Exhibition Form: What is the Case, What is the Challenge
Beginning with a critique of Thierry de Duve's return to Kantian aesthetics in order to rescue art from a commodified culture exemplified by the art biennial, this article argues that the globalised proliferation of biennials is a symptom of a broader problem: the hegemony of the exhibition form in the public's encounter with art. The analysis focuses on the concept of globalisation and what it hides from view; participatory art and the post-docu…
The 2008 Effect: Thoughts on Art World Feminism in the Shadow of Global Capitalism
Since 2008, the inaugural year of an ongoing ‘crisis’, globalization has strongly emerged as an economic, rather than cultural, reality in the making – principally through a conflict between capital and labour. As feminism tackles the gendered division of labour, what kind of context does ‘the 2008 effect’ illuminate for the struggle to end gender and sex-based oppression, and how are feminist narratives of art contributing to this struggle? With…
Como des/articular um sistema: Repetição e diferença no trabalho de Maria Lucia Cattani
O artigo comenta o trabalho de Maria Lucia Cattani a partir de conceitos como repetição, diferença e identificação, em que os signos elaborados nos trabalhos reconfiguram repetição e diferença como dois territórios possivelmente sobrepostos no espaço da arte, em um processo de trabalho desdobrado no tempo
How to dis/articulate a system: Repetition and difference in the work of Maria Lucia Cattani
The article poses comments on the works by Maria Lucia Cattani, drawing from concepts such as repetition and difference and identification, in which the signs developed in the work reconfigure repetition and difference as two possibly overlapping territories in the space of art, in a work process unfolded in time
Social Reproduction Struggles and Art History: An Introduction
The article explores social reproduction as a key term in expanding the purview of art history in relation to the social urgencies of the early twenty-first century and feminist struggles. Providing a context for the approaches to social reproduction and art in the specific journal issue, the analysis makes a case for a methodological shift that would see feminist art history coming closer to a history of labour. But this, the authors argue, impl…
Lewica pozostawiona z Tina: Sztuka, alienacja i antykomunizm
Prezentowany artykuł śledzi, w jaki sposób współczesne pole sztuki bywa nawiedzane przez kulturową i polityczną wyobraźnię właściwą dla czasów po 1989 roku, a uchwyconą w powieści Douglasa Couplanda Pokolenie X: Opowieści na czasy przyśpieszającej kultury (1991, 1998). Książka ta okazała się formacyjna z uwagi na prezentowane w niej stanowisko antypracy, jak również narrację wycofania w podziwie dla procesów przyspieszenia, która opisywała, jak z…
Anti-fascism/Art/Theory: An Introduction to What Hurts Us
The article is intended as a broad contextualisation of the political concerns that underpin the special issue Anti-fascism/Art/Theory as the second decade of the twenty-first century is drawing to a close. Over a decade after the global financial crisis, we find ourselves confronted with a complex, transnational ideological and material reality where identifiable traits of fascism command fringe and mainstream milieus and where anti-fascist mili…
Anti-fascist Art Theory: A Roundtable Discussion
The conversation that follows, among three art theorists whose work focuses on emancipatory politics on the left and who participated together in recent art events in Europe examining the resurgence of fascist politics, poses this question: what might be the connection between the increasing normalisation of a political landscape strewn with fascist elements and the complex positioning of art between (or possibly, across) the status quo and its s…
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Defeat: The Common and the Revolutionary Practice in the Pandemics
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the com-mon and it’s possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a po…
A Feminist Critique of Capitalism: Class, Gender, Work, and Unrest in Women’s Art after 2008
This article considers the shift from ‘patriarchy’ to ‘capitalism’ in the work of contemporary artists who engage feminist critique. This shift, it is argued, is expressed in a politics of representation that centers on labour, and in particular how gender’s articulation - in terms of bodies or values - informs the inscription of class. The four artworks on which I will focus come from 2010, that is, as the impact of the 2008 global financial cri…
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