Krasny, Elke. ‘For Us Art is Work. In♀Akt – International Action Community of Women Artists.’ 2017

Krasny, Elke. ‘For Us Art is Work. In♀Akt – International Action Community of Women Artists.’ In All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the long 1970s, edited by Agata Jakuba and
Katy Deepwell, 96-118. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017.

They used the artistic strategy of appropriating found objects to support compositions based on formal seriality. In 1978 they used bedsheets and continued with handkerchiefs in 1984. The bedsheets represented domestic labour, sexuality, intimacy, power and religion. Again, this became a method of democratic art making, navigating both collective formation and individual expression. And they chose objects with domestic references which seemed particularly meaningful for feminist appropriations.

Caption: Leintücher – Künstlinge & Findlinge [Bedsheets – Artlings & Foundlings], bedsheet installation, Steirischer Herbst, invitation, 1979, IntAkt Archive Vienna