04/09/13
Christina Mitrentse: MAKE
– METALIBRARY / An Interactive Exhibition
Women’s Art Library,
Special Collections, Rutherford Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
2 – 23 September 2013
(extended)
It is unusual to walk into a library and find the books laid
out across the floor. It is even more unusual to do so in a Special Collections
Archive, where the books and magazines in question are normally only available
upon special request. But precisely this has happened in the Women’s Art Library,
located in the Goldsmiths College Library Special Collections department,
courtesy of Greek-born artist Christina Mitrentse (born 1977).
Originally established
as the Women Artists Slide Library in the late 1970s, this artists’ initiative
developed into a fully-fledged organisation and research resource, becoming
part of Goldsmiths College Library Special Collections in 2004. Its holdings
include a significant number of early feminist art journals, such as Feminist
Artists Newsletter (UK), Heresies (USA) and Matriart (Canada), alongside, of
course, the complete nine-year, 92-issue run of what came to be known as MAKE,
the library’s own publication of and for women’s art, focusing on
historical and contemporary women’s art practice and highlighting both emerging
and established international artists through previews, interviews, and feature
pieces.
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