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The Actions of a Multi-Disciplinarian: Toward an Understanding of the Actions I Love

This text explores the transformative power of multidisciplinary art practices, highlighting the experiences of women artists who have developed leadership skills, created art, and engaged in various disciplines. It also showcases different artworks and installations that demonstrate the collaborative nature of art-making.

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The Actions of a Multi-Disciplinarian: Toward an Understanding of the Actions I Love

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  1. Image - Toward and Understanding of the Actions I Love at the Top of 2004, detail. The Actions of a Multi-Disciplinarian By Lois Klassen for the Second Sunday Artist Talks Britannia Library and Art Gallery September 11, 2005

  2. Many of the women managed, in one year, to alter their personality structures, develop leadership, make art, write about their experiences, speak and perform publicly, learn building and film making skills. They did costuming, makeup, and sewing one day, construction work the next, and art-history research in the evening, moving easily from one discipline to another, regardless of their previous experience in that discipline… Judy Chicago writing about the first students of the Women’s Program at Fresno, CA, 1970 in Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist, 1975. Multidisciplinarian, 2002, 3.5x2.5” Artist Trading Card bookwork

  3. Photo - C. Wiebe Multidisciplinary Team, 1988 hospital uniforms and linens, plaster, lights and wiring as seen in the Manawaka Gallery, Neepawa, MB

  4. Photo - C. Wiebe Multidisciplinary Team, detail

  5. Photo - C. Wiebe Sterile Packaging, 1988 Assorted personal items in individual sterile packages, packaging machine and a roll of packaging supplies for audience to use, Manawaka Gallery

  6. Photo - C. Wiebe Sterile Packaging, 1988, detail.

  7. For Martha: The MCC Blanket, detail, 1996 Postcards constructed using found textiles and paper

  8. For Martha: The MCC Blanket, detail

  9. For Martha: The MCC Blanket, detail

  10. Photo - S. Brown (Coterie of Malcontents), 1995 Site specific installation (found floor linoleum, paper collage, table, lamp), in an abandoned store, Brandon, MB.

  11. Photo - S. Brown (Coterie of Malcontents), detail

  12. The Renegade Library, 1998, installation views , Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 1995 An exhibit of almost 600 collaborative bookworks, with 730 participating artists from 37 countries.

  13. The Performance of the Burning Books by the Renegade Librarian, 1998, opening The Renegade Library, Art Gallery of southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB.

  14. sharing, sharing, sharing ideas build on ideas people are always more important than art Mail it don’t Jail it: Keep art out of Museums

  15. Art is not produced by one artist but by several. It is to a great degree a product of their exchange of ideas with one another.Max Ernst “Original Please add to and pass on No. 11495 (NO COPY!)” Lancillotto Bellini (Italy), Art Nahpro (England), Daniel Daligano, A-1 Waste Paper Company (England), Hazel Jones (England)

  16. May 26 Into the city and I know The heat will descend quickly And it is thus With fresh green leaves backed by sunny blue I removed my jacket. ‘Joan!, were you warm today?!’ My skinny sister and I are in collusion. Thirteen Sightings, www3.telus.net/sightings

  17. What is REAL want?, 2002 3.5x2.5”, set of three artist trading cards

  18. Photo - M. Lymburner Comforter Art-Action Ongoing art intervention since 2001

  19. Comforter 12, detail

  20. Photo - M. Lymburner Comforter Art-Action, accounts

  21. Also see, http://loiszing.blogs.com Comforters, (foreground - 2003, background - 2005), mail art style documentation booklets for Comforter Art-Action participants

  22. Photo - G. Duncan Students from Queen Elizabeth School, 2005

  23. Photo - L. Decter Endearing, Enduring 2004 Video installation Right - at Peace Tense, the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace, Vancouver Left - in Endurance & Luxury, The Britannia Gallery, Vancouver Photo - M. Lymburner

  24. My religion, should anyone be interested,can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? Isabel Allende, My Invented Country, 2003

  25. My religion, should anyone be interested,can be reduced to a simple question: What is the most generous thing one can do in this case? Isabel Allende, My Invented Country, 2003 from: www.mcc.org September 10, 2005

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