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My Edits to Stanya's Original Page

 * I deleted anything I couldn't attribute to a source, so I deleted the quote from the first paragraph because its initial link was broken
 * Speaking of links – I fixed the electronic mix ones and Susanne Vielmetter one, but deleted basically all the others, because they either weren't relevant, were broken, or I deleted the text they accompanied
 * Put the Bomb article into further reading and added two further readings
 * A lot of my edits to the original text were breaking up the paragraphs, deleting excessive words and highlighting accomplishments, so it was digestible for readers

Potential sources?
From Oxford Art Online (2011, October 31). Warhol, Andy. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 14 Dec. 2020, from https://www-oxfordartonline-com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00194600.

Kahn contributed to a group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, called the The Queer Voice, which had installations from Laurie Anderson, Sharon Hayes, John Kelly, Kalup Linzy, Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin, and Andy Warhol.

Drafts
Stanya Kahn, born 1968 in California, is an American video artist. She studied at San Francisco Sate University and graduated with an MFA in 2003 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. "Using humor as a central device, Kahn combines storytelling with visceral performances, blurring the lines between the fictional and the real to show how language is forged out of trauma."

Before becoming a video artist, Kahn had a background in performing. In the 80's she was in a San Francisco theatre collective, and she toured with Sister Spit, a feminist spoken word group, in 1998.

Career[edit source]
In the early 1990's Kahn met Harry Dodge, an artist who produced their own film. The artists began collaborating at Bard College in 2002, where they first created the character Lois who conveys "empathy and discomfiture." Because of Kahn's history in performance art and Dodge's film experience, the duo consisted of Dodge behind the camera and Kahn in front of it. Their comedic videos satirize and emphasize the "awkwardness and idiosyncrasies of art making, myth, gender, and video itself."

In addition to her video work, Kahn is also a multimedia artist. Her solo show, Die Laughing, premiered at the Marlborough Chelsea in 2014 and consisted of her film Don't Go Back to Sleep and paintings and drawings – comedic cartoons in the style of the New Yorker and Mike Kelley. Ciphers for Ciphers, a short book written by Kahn, displays a collection of her drawings.

Kahn and Dodge's videos are often deemed strange and ludicrous – in Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out (2006), Kahn is a bloody-nosed valkyrie, holding a foam cheese block and wondering the streets of Los Angeles. Some critics note a darker seriousness about their videos, alluding to "an era marked by crisis and violence."

She has exhibited worldwide collaboratively with artist Harry Dodge in the last decade and has exhibited solo since 2010. Previous to and during her collaboration with Dodge, she made solo performance works and also collaborated with performers and choreographers Keith Hennessy, CORE and Ishmael Houston Jones, touring live shows worldwide from 1992-2000. She starred in and was a contributing writer for the independent feature film By Hook or By Crook, which won numerous awards and was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Hammer Museum, LA and the Goetz Collection, Munich.

Works[edit source]
Kahn and Dodge's work has been shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Sundance Film Festival, among several other museums and events.

Kahn's solo performance works have also toured nationally and internationally. Her writings have appeared in journals and anthologies including Nothing Moments, LTTR and Movement Research. She has taught as adjunct faculty in New Genres at UCLA, Photo/Media at Cal Arts, Visual Arts/Media and Critical Gender Studies at UCSD, and has taught in the MFA programs at USC and UCLA.

Adding a subheading to cover all my bases
I look forward to editing Stanya Kahn's Wikipedia page, as she currently has an error banner and 13 references. I picked her, as most of her page is dedicated to where her work is located and doesn't focus much on what her work is about. What I found most interesting about learning how to edit Wikipedia pages is the idea of objectivity. The Wikipedia guidelines call for a neutral point of view, but Sarah Cowan's article on Art + Feminism's Wikipedia edit-a-thons points out the issues with this and other guidelines:

"Reading through those pillars with a more critical eye, lines like, 'We strive for articles that document and explain the major points of view' supported by 'reliable, authoritative sources,' as well as the convoluted notability and conflict-of-interest guidelines, are strikingly contradictory to a feminist perspective. Feminism has historically valued the networks and personal, lived experiences that give underprivileged members of society a voice."

Cowan says that the "dominant culture" outlines these guidelines and feminist editors might naturally contradict them. To remain within Wikipedia guidelines however, I'll aim to cite reputable sources, which I'll find through the UW-Madison Library System, JSTOR, Oxford Art. If I find a great source from any of those databases, I may use that source's bibliography for additional, trustworthy sources.