Sum Bodi and Evan Greene, In making the initial post on this discussion thread, I was thinking of the general topic of sexual harassment, not calling out individual people. I think the discussion has tended to go that way, broadening out at times to discuss sexism in general in the experimental art world.
I agree with Fred that it is not appropriate to name names here for several reasons: much of the “knowledge” is hearsay, a free for all social media listserv is not a forum with any protections for all the parties who might be concerned (accuser, accused, bystanders, spouses/partners, children, the framing institutions, etc.), and different people draw “the line” in different places for inappropriate behavior. As much as possible, I think the goal should be restorative justice. At least in educational institutions today we have (some) formal Title IX policies and procedures in place (as flawed as that system may be, and as determined that the Trump administration is to weaken them). For a particularly lucid discussion of these controversies I’d recommend filmmaker/critic Laura Kipnis’s new book, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Earlier Pip argued that because so much of experimental filmmaking is done in an individual artisan way there aren’t the same workplace hierarchies as in the commercial film world. True, but anytime there are power differentials, abuse is possible: that may be in funding, access to equipment, necessary services, distribution, exhibition, curating, and even archiving and preservation. And criticism and recognition. Our field, after all ranges from the first year student showing a short work at the end of the semester class screening to yet another mammoth Mathew Barney extravaganza at a major museum. Chuck Kleinhans _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
