Chapter 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’

The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue

In: Feminist Critique and the Museum
Author:
Sarah Williamson
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229–249
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_013

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Abstract

This chapter discusses feminist art activism and the creation of the character ‘ArtActivistBarbie,’ a fearless, feminist Barbie doll who is staged and posed in art galleries and museums to draw attention to gender representation, inequality and injustice. The work is a/r/tographic enquiry – an aesthetic, performative and critical pedagogic practice. The imaginative and creatively disruptive work of ArtActivistBarbie is explored as public pedagogy, public intellectualism and feminist ventriloquism which seeks to activate a critical feminist consciousness.

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Feminist Critique and the Museum

Educating for a Critical Consciousness

Cover Feminist Critique and the Museum
E-Book ISBN:
9789004440180
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
24 Aug 2020
Front Matter
Copyright page
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Stories Museums Tell
Chapter 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy
Chapter 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives
Chapter 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy
Chapter 4 Hacking Language
Chapter 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls
Chapter 6 Signs Images Words from 1968
Part 2 On War, Peace and Human Rights
Chapter 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe
Chapter 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
Chapter 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives
Chapter 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women
Chapter 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Part 3 Illumination, Provocation, Imagination
Chapter 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’
Chapter 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums
Chapter 14 A Room of Her Own
Chapter 15 Cultures of Headscarves
Chapter 16 The Invisibility Cloak
Back Matter
Index

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