Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Students paint 'Laws' of #CLITERACY on free graffiti wall. Love the Clit! Get Your Cliteracy on with Artist Sophia Wallace. Sophia Wallace on CLITERACY. SOPHIA WALLACE Conceptual Artist based in NYC - CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws. CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, 2012 © Sophia Wallace All Rights Reserved CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality.
CLITERACY is a new way of talking about citizenship, sexuality, human rights, and bodies. The project reveals the – phallic as neutral – bias in science, law, philosophy, politics, mainstream and even feminist discussion, and the art world - which is so saturated with the female body as subject. Using text as form, CLITERACY explores the construction of female sexual bodies as passive vehicles of reception defined by lack. CLITERACY is monumental in scope and scale with 100 Natural Laws that span 10 by 13 feet and a 6 foot neon piece suspended from the ceiling. Sophiawallace : Students paint 'Laws' of... Sophiawallace : The Cliteracy Project brings...
Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace Wants You To Know The Truth About The Clitoris. New York artist Sophia Wallace wants you -- and everyone you know -- to be cliterate.
"It's appalling and shocking to think that scientifically, the clitoris was only discovered in 1998," Wallace told The Huffington Post from her Brooklyn studio last week. "But really, it may as well have never been discovered at all because there's still such ignorance when it comes to the female body. " The clitoris, described as the only human body part that exists solely for pleasure, is not merely a little "button" hidden between a woman's legs, but rather a large, mostly internal organ many people don't know about, Wallace explains. According to a 2011 post by Museum of Sex blogger Ms. In 1998, Australian urologist Helen O’Connell published a paper in the Journal of Urology describing the sheer scope and size of the clitoris. Wallace, citing anecdotal evidence, says ignorance still seems to be ever-pervasive in modern society.
Scroll down to learn more about Wallace's project: What is "Cliteracy"? HuffPost Live What's Trending: 10:35->> Cliteracy 101 & More. Advalvas: Studenten ontsnappen aan boete na clitoriskunst. ‘Solid gold clit’, was er op de muren gespoten.
Het bestuur van een Amerikaanse kunstacademie was daar zo boos over dat het alle studenten 250 dollar boete wilde geven. Aan de Santa Fe University of Art and Design kwam kunstenares Sophia Wallace een gastles geven over haar project ‘Cliteracy: 100 Natural Laws’. Ze stelt de vraag waarom de wereld het vrouwenlichaam zo graag wil seksualiseren, terwijl er tegelijkertijd zo weinig kennis is over de clitoris. Vrouwelijke anatomie De les sloeg behoorlijk aan. De kunstenares prees de graffiti: “Wie deze tags maakte, heeft iets in het publieke domein gebracht waarvan de hele samenleving je van jongs af aan leert dat je er nooit over mag praten. Zonde van het collegegeld Er werd natuurlijk flink geprotesteerd tegen de boete voor alle studenten. Trajectum: Boete voor Clitoris-graffiti. Sex, Art & Higher Education: Cliteracy project sparks graffiti. Public discussions about sexuality pop up on college campuses on a regular basis, and not immune from this phenomenon is our own Santa Fe University of Art and Design, where in January a spate of clitoris-themed graffiti led to uproar from school officials.
Artist Sophia Wallace had recently visited the campus with her artwork called “Cliteracy, 100 Natural Laws.” The work, according to Wallace’s website, was intended to explore a paradox she defines as “the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. Cliteracy is a new way of talking about citizenship, sexuality, human rights and bodies.” Yet when someone (or several someones) painted graffiti at residence halls, hallways and doors with depictions of female anatomy and the words “solid gold clit” or the abbreviation SGC, school officials wanted to impose consequences. They posted a notice that a $250 fine would be imposed on every student living on campus.