Son[i]a #308. Susan Bee
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with Susan Bee that we were unable to include the first time around. Susan Bee was born in New York, where she has always lived and worked. As an art student in the late sixties, she first came in contact with feminist activism and other social movements such as black power, gay rights, and protests against the Vietnam War. In 1986, she embarked on the project M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a self-managed art magazine that she co-edited with fellow artist Mira Schor for thirty years. From the strict black and white pages of M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a plurality of voices of artists, poets, thinkers, and writers have discussed and reflected on art and feminism, art and racism, art and maternity, and art and activism, and on censorship, sexuality, poetry, aesthetics, and visual culture.
Susan Bee
New York artist Susan Bee defends the political and subversive potential that develops when art and pleasure unite. Which is why imagination, poetry, humour, subjectivity, textures, colours, lines, and matter play an essential role in her work, both in her collages and paintings and her artist’s books. As an art student in the late sixties, she first came in contact with feminist activism and other social movements such as black power, gay rights, and protests against the Vietnam War. In 1986, she embarked on the project M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a self-managed art magazine that she co-edited with fellow artist Mira Schor for thirty years. In this podcast, Susan also shares the particularities of being a woman and an artist who has passed the age threshold of 65 in New York’s artistic ecosystem today.
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