Womens Work - Originally published in the mid-1970s, Womens Work was a magazine that sought to highlight the neglected work of female artists working at the intersection of visual arts, music, and performance. The magazine was edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood and featured textual and didactic performance scores by the following 25 artists, composers, and choreographers:
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\nBeth Anderon, Ruth Anderson, Jacki Apple, Barbara Benary, Sari Dienes, Nye Ffarrabas (participating as Bici Forbes), Simone Forti, Wendy Greenberg, Heidi Von Gunden, Françoise Janicot, Alison Knowles, Christina Kubisch, Carol Law, Annea Lockwood (also included as Anna Lockwood), Mary Lucier, Lisa Mikulchik, Ann Noël (included as Ann Williams), Pauline Oliveros, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Elaine Summers, Carole Weber, Julie Winter, and Marilyn Wood.
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\nThe magazine was designed by Alison Knowles, who deliberately chose off-white paper and brown inks to contrast with the sanitized, white-page publications prevalent at the time. The works contained in the magazine vary in scope and take a multitude of forms, using both typed and written text, often accompanied by visual elements such as diagrams, drawings, and photographic images. The editors were and remain convinced that work must be made, that it must not remain static as an artifact.
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\nThe first issue, published in 1975, took the form of a saddle-stitched magazine and the second, published in 1978, that of a fold-out poster. This facsimile edition reproduces both and houses them in a custom self-folding box.
