Appropriating imagery from soft-core pornography to create ‘embroidered paintings’ Ghada Amer asks whether craft can be pornographic.
Danica van de Velde
Danica van de Velde is a writer and researcher based in Perth, Western Australia. She completed her doctoral thesis on the cinema of Wong Kar-wai at The University of Western Australia and continues to focus her research on the intersection of visual culture, space and desire. Her writing has recently been published in Refocus: The Films of Michel Gondry (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020) and she is a regular contributor to a Dance Mag, Metro Magazine and Senses of Cinema. Danica was the recipient of the Senses of Cinema-Monash Essay Prize in 2019 for her essay on the cinematic self-adaptations of French filmmaker and writer Marguerite Duras.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey