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

Sarah Williamson

doi:10.1163/9789004440180_013

‘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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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Feminist Critique and the Museum
Subtitle of host publication	Educating for a Critical Consciousness
Editors	Kathy Sanford, Darlene E. Clover, Nancy Taber, Sarah Williamson
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Chapter	12
Pages	229-249
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004440180
ISBN (Print)	9789004440166, 9789004440173
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_013
Publication status	Published - 3 Sept 2020

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Williamson, S. (2020). ‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue. In K. Sanford, D. E. Clover, N. Taber, & S. Williamson (Eds.), Feminist Critique and the Museum : Educating for a Critical Consciousness (pp. 229-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_013

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Williamson, S 2020, ‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue. in K Sanford, DE Clover, N Taber & S Williamson (eds), Feminist Critique and the Museum : Educating for a Critical Consciousness. Brill Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_013

‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue. / Williamson, Sarah.
Feminist Critique and the Museum : Educating for a Critical Consciousness. ed. / Kathy Sanford; Darlene E. Clover; Nancy Taber; Sarah Williamson. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2020. p. 229-249.

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Williamson S. ‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue. In Sanford K, Clover DE, Taber N, Williamson S, editors, Feminist Critique and the Museum : Educating for a Critical Consciousness. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. 2020. p. 229-249 Epub 2020 Aug 31. doi: 10.1163/9789004440180_013

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