Not at the beginning and not at the end: A Conversation among Deidre Logue, Allyson Mitchell and Helena Reckitt
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A conversation about feminist and queer curatorial and artistic practice between artists Deidre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, who together founded and run the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) in Toronto, and Helena Reckitt, a curator with a longstanding interest in legacies of queer and feminist engagements with art and theory. The contributors start by focusing on the role of art history and criticism in constructing genealogies of queer and feminist art, what these scholarly and critical activities uncover or obscure, and the contributions of artists in furthering knowledges of these histories. Taking a more pragmatic turn, the discussion moves to Logue and Mitchell’s work founding and running FAG. Defining FAG as a feminist, not a women’s, art project, they clarify how the gallery, and related activities such as the Feminist Art Collection (FAC), are equally engaged with gender, race, class and ability. Contributors highlight queer and feminist curatorial and artistic projects from the past that have influenced their practices. In considering a range of earlier projects, they discuss tactics including breaking art historical rules, appropriating non-queer art within a queer frame, drawing attention to processes of historical invisibility and exclusion, engaging with erotic artistic content, and creating experimental and interactive exhibition formats. The authors end by discussing the implications of FAG being housed in a domestic space, and their strategy of accepting an invitation on behalf of FAG and “fagging it forward” to someone else who would benefit from the opportunity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.052 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.015 | 0.024 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".