A piece of land

Mikaela Krestesen, Moa Krestesen, Jane Winter

This book focuses on the ongoing interdisciplinary art project about the communal life at Millett Farm. In 1978, feminist author, Kate Millett founded an art colony for women in Poughkeepsie USA that remained in operation until the beginning of the new millennium. The colony was founded out of a belief that a gender-specific community would provide an environment where women artists could work unencumbered by social stigma. Millett is best known for Sexual Politics (1970) and her ground-breaking work for women's liberation. She was a member of both the feminist and gay liberation movements that inspired feminist and lesbian separatist cultural and communal experiments in the 1970s. Millett Farm evolved from incorporating elements of the radical feminist - gay liberation - and avant-garde movements. 2010 Kate Millett invited S.O.J. to stay with her at The Farm, that became the starting...