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

Sarah Williamson

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFeminist Critique and the Museum
Subtitle of host publicationEducating for a Critical Consciousness
EditorsKathy Sanford, Darlene E. Clover, Nancy Taber, Sarah Williamson
Place of PublicationNetherlands
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Chapter12
Pages229-249
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9789004440180
ISBN (Print)9789004440166, 9789004440173
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Sep 2020

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