Written by C.M. Judge | Edited by Karin Luner
Intermedia artist C. M. Judge creates 2D, 3D, and time-based media focused on the poetic confluences of body and spirit. Her work has been exhibited worldwide. She holds a Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT and was awarded the inaugural Present Tense Prize for excellence in new media from ArtsWorcester. Judge specializes in facilitating large-scale, collaborative public art projects with people of all ages and abilities. An advocate for women’s art-making, Judge has been active in the Women’s Caucus for Art at the national level, serving as Vice President of the Northeast Region, President of the Boston chapter, and co-founder of the Central Massachusetts chapter (now part of the newly formed Massachusetts chapter).
Collaboration plays a pivotal role in Judge’s practice. For over 20 years, she and Paula Rendino have created work exploring the dignity of all persons—from the historical realities of women’s lives to the creation of spaces where communities gather for healing. Drop the Last Stone, their recent installation, invites community members to release grudges. Judge also partners with French artist Véronique Sapin; together they founded and co-direct the international video art collective FemLink-Art. Judge is a prayer companion for the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.
www.femlink.org
WCA will always hold a special place in FemLink-Art’s (FL’Art) history for providing the international collective’s first screening opportunity for its composition, FRAGILITY, at the 2011 Los Angeles conference. During those early years, each opportunity to present work helped expand the possibilities for bringing video art created by women to wider audiences.
Subsequent screenings were presented at WCA conferences and by individual WCA chapters throughout the United States. In the years since, the FL’Art collective has grown to include 158 women video artists from 64 countries.
Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey); And Then, the Total Blank, Véronique Sapin (France)
Published in French by L’Harmattan last month, FEMLINK-ART: International Collective of Women Video Artists documents the twenty-year history of the world’s largest feminist video art collective, dedicated to fostering cross-cultural dialogue through thematic video works created by women artists around the globe.
Told from the intimate perspective of its founders—French artist Véronique Sapin and American artist C. M. Judge—the book explores the origins and evolution of FL’Art. It presents the collective’s manifesto, its transnational collaborative processes, and the practical, thematic, and conceptual frameworks guiding its projects.
Available here:
editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/femlink-art/82498
The volume includes:
- A catalog of each video composition and installation produced by the collective
- Commentary from participating artists and curators
- Reflections on feminist foundations and activism
- Critiques of the mainstream art establishment
- Discussions of globalization and its impact on women artists
- Insights into the social and political value of collaborative artmaking
Overall, the book serves as both an archival record and a critical reflection on feminist media practice, highlighting how collective video art can function as a tool for dialogue, resistance, and cultural exchange across borders.
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The collective’s newest installation, CROSSINGS, featuring 22 artists from 22 countries, explores human existence through each artist’s relationship to artifacts from their lives. The work was selected for the 2026 Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Awards exhibition and was screened at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office gallery in New York (1 E 42nd St) through May 15. www.femlink.org
www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/femlink-art/82498
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www.femlink.org
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