Notes on fundamental joy: seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us

Notes on fundamental joy: seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us

Carmen Winant, Ariel Goldberg • Carmen Winant

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ISBN-10: 0894390988 · ISBN-13: 978‑0894390982 · 2019 · 1st Edition

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"An experimental work that sits at the cross section of an artists' project and historical document, drawing from archival images borne out of the Ovulars, a series of darkroom/photography workshops held in various feminist & lesbian separatist communes of the early 80s across the Pacific Northwest. Notes on Fundamental Joy holds up the work of JEB, Clytia Fuller, Tee Corinne, Ruth Mountaingrove, Katie Niles, Carol Osmer, Honey Lee Cottrell, and others, documenting a community of women/womyn in their collective embrace of the 'back to the land' movement. Through the lens of pervasive image-making--women holding cameras, women taking pictures of women--the project considers the radical potential of social and political optimism predicated on the absence of men.The photographs are accompanied by a running essay from Winant, stretched across the bottom of each page as if a low horizon line, considering the images' collective power in picturing intimacy and pleasure.

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