https://thecountessreport.com.au/
"Elvis Richardson’s blog
CoUNTess: Women count in the art-world has published
data on gender representation in Australian contemporary visual arts since
2008. Its data-collecting activities provide hard evidence of the need for –
and add substantial traction to – action by women artists working to bring
gender equality to art education, art practice and contemporary art culture. It
is frequently cited.
Responses to gender inequality in contemporary art have increased
internationally over the past few years. They include influential New York
critic Jerry Saltz’s ongoing commentary on gender statistics, The East London
Fawcett Group’s Great East London Art Audit, a data collection project focusing
on London contemporary art galleries in 2012, the 2014, Gallery Tally in which
Los Angeles artist Micol Hebron asked artists to submit posters visualising the
gender representation of commercial galleries then exhibited them online, and
the continuing artistic activism of the US-based Guerrilla Girls and Pussy
Galore. All these projects have used statistics about unequal gender
representation to question how notions of quality and taste apply in
determining artistic merit and success.
The Countess Report is a benchmarking project and online resource on gender
equality in the Australian contemporary art sector. Put together by Elvis
Richardson, it compiles and analyses data on education, prizes, funding, art
media, organisational makeup, and exhibitions of various kinds across a wide
range of galleries including national and State, regional, commercial, ARIs
(Artist Run Galleries), and CAOs (Contemporary Art Spaces).
The Countess
Report is based on publically available data collected from websites,
exhibition catalogues, magazines and media in the calendar year 2014, chosen
because the data set is recent, complete and still readily available. Detailed
findings now available in
The Countess Report offer evidence not previously
available and provide a test case sample for future benchmarking."
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
