Session 6: From the Female Body as Possession to Beauty as Power
Daria Dorosh
The Social Body
Daria Dorosh, H2O Planet, 2019, digital print with hand-drawn map. 28 x 39inches
Monday, April 5, 2021, 9 am EST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84592197420
Webinar ID: 845 9219 7420
Zoom selfie in artists’ studio 2021. digital photograph. 13 x20 inches
A discourse on the advancement of the female body from desired possession to active agent in human culture.
Daria Dorosh is one of twenty women artists who co-founded A.I.R. Gallery and who has continued her membership over almost a half century. In this presentation the artist will show a selection from her 22 one-person exhibitions since 1972 to discuss how a feminist consciousness manifests itself in the form, medium, and content of her work. She will discuss how her art communities, her work in education and fashion, as well as participation in research and collaboration have impacted her as an artist and led her to a personal definition of feminist cultural legacy. Her analog beginnings as a painter and sculptor were followed by a public art period in which she initiated art projects for the city environment. The emergence of the desktop computer challenged art-making for her generation and continues to have a profound influence on her work and thinking. Her talk concludes with a demonstration and challenge to herself and others in which she says “Virtual platforms such as Zoom are the new public arena. Some of the questions for me are: how do we take ownership of a public space that overlaps with the casual, yet intimate space of our body and the place where we live? Might feminist artists occupy the virtual meeting room as a new performative space, a “third skin” and an opportunity for their artistic expression?"
Suggested Reading:
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/
Daria Dorosh, "Take back your body," 2017 23rd International Conference on Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM), Dublin, 2017, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/VSMM.2017.8346250. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8346250
D. Dorosh, “Patterning: the informatics of art and fashion” PhD thesis 2007 https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/86693
Daria Dorosh, “Fashion Massing” https://medium.com/@nyc1now/fashion-massing-c99821e781cb
Mary Condren, “The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland”
Maureen Concannon, "The Sacred Whore: Sheela, Goddess of the Celts"
Daria Dorosh, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery, NY. In her practice-based thesis, Patterning: The Informatics of Art and Fashion, she investigates two sets of binary patterns that link art, fashion, and digital culture. Her presentation, Take Back Your Body, was given at the 2017 conference on Virtual Systems and Multi-Media at University College Dublin where she is adjunct faculty with SMARTlab UCD.
Dorosh studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, and at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, NY. She taught fashion design at FIT and fine art at Parsons School of Design, NY. between 1969 -2014.