FRED HATT
Visual Artist
Exhibited:
Sorceress
On participating in Vagina Festival 2007:
A great sickness of civilization is the duality that sees the spirit or the mind as good and pure, and the body and earth and nature as inferior or dirty or evil. This duality is connected with imbalances both global (such as environmental destruction) and personal (such as body self-loathing). Through the centuries it has been used to justify the repression of women, who have been seen as more "physical" or "earthbound" because of childbearing. In our time, the loathing of the body and its processes leads women to self-inflicted violence such as eating disorders and excessive plastic surgery.
Art has the power to change the way we perceive things, which approaches this problem at the deepest level. I want to join with other artists whose work addresses this ancient and still powerful wound in our culture, to heal and to mourn and protest violence against women, against humanity, against nature, and to proclaim and inspire the power of the embodied spirit.
About Fred Hatt:
In my approach to figurative art, I strive to grow my perception to see the body as life force, not simply as object. My core practice is life drawing, which is about capturing and expressing the special quality of living energy. For me this is a disciplined practice and a basis for ongoing experimentation. Through it I hope to develop my own perception beyond duality, and I hope that my work will help others to evolve their perception in a similar direction.
Contact: fredhatt@highstream.net,
718-349-6359.
Website: www.fredhatt.com
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VAGINA FESTIVAL 2007
took place on FEB. 16-18
at
AGNI GALLERY, NYC
Proceeds were donated to V-Day. We were honored to present two performances of The Vagina Monologues.
About Vagina Festival 2007 >
View the 2007 Program >
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN >
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions.
V-Day's 2007 theme Reclaiming Peace seeks to make the connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace and an end to armed conflicts. "We are saying that if a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home," stated V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.
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