A ritualistic performance with high energy drumming and dancing marked the opening of French artist, Alice Anderson’s current solo show at Waddington Custot, entitled Body Disruptions.
Perhaps this is due to a rise in feminine energy, or perhaps it’s reflective of our collective need to connect more deeply, but either way these ideas keep resurfacing. Once again (ref: Curator’s Egg #7), I find conversations coming back to magic, ritual and mythologies. Alice Anderson at Waddington Custot performing a “Transitional Dance”, London, 2019. Maybe that’s what International Women’s Day can start to represent-rather than women versus men, it becomes about opening up and learning to be compassionate, whatever your gender. All of us, male, female and otherwise, have an opportunity at this point in time to come together with compassion and understanding, letting go of old ideas and embracing a new way of being that is ultimately more rewarding for everyone. Fear is a paralysing and ultimately destructive force. There are many who lament this shift those who were able to hold positions of power in the past and now are afraid of it slipping away from them. Reflecting back on our conversation, what struck me was the shift in attitude we’ve witnessed in the last twenty years from one of dominance and submission, to one of compassion and collaboration.
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On the flip side, we all had examples to give of strong, positive role models we had benefited from meeting at various points during our careers, who gave us confidence and encouraged us to bring our full selves into the world. Some reported very negative behaviours and emotional abuse. Universal experiences surfaced during the conversation, both negative and positive each of us had memories of assumptions made by senior figures in educational establishments about our reasons for being there and our abilities to undertake the work. Beth Greenacre (art advisor and curator of The AllBright Collection), Jo Baring (art advisor and head of the Ingram Collection), Anna Liber Lewis and I discussed our experiences of working in the art world, and navigating that world from the particular perspective of a woman. In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, I was invited to attend a panel discussion with three amazing women at all-female private members’ club, The AllBright. In response to the discussion generated by Elephant issue #38, “What’s Become of Him?”, I’ve been thinking about what impact the shifting perceptions of gender are having on our language, our experience of the world and our relationship to others. It's satisfying for all of us to have outlets for both our masculine and feminine energies.Masculinity, in all its guises, is on our minds at the moment. Likewise, many women are still raised with expectations to be feminine, but there are many benefits to being clear, directive, and progressive. (In fact, it's more important than ever to raise boys without gender stereotypes!) Men are usually encouraged to identify more with masculine energy, but there's great joy in being able to let go and be flexible. That said, the words "feminine" and "masculine" can still be helpful in describing two different and opposing ways of being.įor people of all genders, both feminine energy and masculine energy are necessary to embody in order to feel like a complete person. Today we know people of all genders can have any combination of any of these traits, and no traits are inherent to any gender or should be expected of any gender. Likewise, the traits associated with being " masculine" are traits we used to expect from men. The set of traits we've come to define as "feminine" do stem from the expectations we used to place on women throughout history to behave a certain way. Importantly, these traits are not associated with gender. Your feminine side gets expressed when you move with the flow of life, embrace your creative energy, dance, play, and attune to your internal process. Your masculine side gets expressed when you're working toward a goal, making progress, getting things done, and pushing forward. Feminine energy refers to a specific set of traits, considered to be the opposite of traits associated with masculine energy.
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