Miss.Tic

Miss.Tic at the Lelia Mordoch Gallery in Paris (July 2012)

Miss.Tic (* 20th February 1956 in Paris , bourgeois Radhia de Ruiter ) is one with stencils ( pochoir working) French Streetartkünstlerin , graphic artist , performance artist , visual artist and poet . Her work has been on view in public spaces in Paris and in galleries since 1985. She makes her stencils exclusively in black and red on different backgrounds or in public spaces. They mostly show a female person, in close proximity to an ambiguous group of words and are provided with their Miss.Tic signet . The font of the texts and the signet is characteristic, was designed and hand-cut by herself.

Life

Miss.Tic was born in Montmartre , the 18th arrondissement in the migrant district around the Boulevard Barbès . Her father was a Tunisian immigrant and worker, her mother came from a farming background in Normandy . Her parents were confronted with racist stereotyping because she had entered into a so-called marriage mixte , a " mixed marriage ". She grew up in the Butte aux Cailles district of Paris , a working-class neighborhood that also houses poets, artists and sex workers . In the 1960s the family moved to Orly .

In 1966, her family was in a car accident that resulted in the death of her mother, grandmother, and brother. She and her father were hospitalized for the following year.

From 1968 Miss.Tic attended the college in Orly. There she was associated with theater, literature and visual arts by her teachers, she attended acting courses. In 1972 her father died of a heart attack. Her stepmother asked her to drop out of school after 10th grade to work in her restaurant. She secretly moved from home, dropped out of school and made a living by herself.

In the course of the 1970s Miss.Tic stayed in the orbit of the late Situationists . She received books such as B. Society of Spectacles by Guy Debord and La Société de Consommation by Jean Baudrillard , who criticize capitalism , consumer society, the commodity of life and government techniques. She played street theater, performances and provocation theater with the group Zéro de Conduite and wrote lyrical texts. At the same time, she earned her living as a waitress.

From 1981 she lived in the USA for two and a half years , first in Los Angeles and later in San Francisco . The thriving there hip-hop movement, with its graffiti and legal painted large murals - the murals - influenced Miss.Tic strong. During this time she was traveling in artist circles and received a lot of art without being artistically active herself. She continued to finance her life with changing small jobs.

After her return in 1983, Miss.Tic found street art by artists such as Blek le Rat in the Parisian cityscape , which was inspiring for her. She made contact with those working on the street, watched or helped them with their work.

During this time, she decided to work as a graphic designer and layouter, and completed a short training course for it. With her Arabic family name Jamil, she rarely received an answer or even an interview to applications. After getting married and taking her husband's name, she worked as a layout and graphic designer for various magazines.

Miss.Tic has been doing street art since 1985. Miss.Tic makes positive references to feminist writer Virginie Despentes and sees herself as an anarchist . She lives in Paris.

Miss.Tics tries not to let her real name appear too clearly in public:

“I called myself Miss.Tic from the start. Nobody calls me by my real name anymore. Only the cops and the tax authorities know him. "

- Miss.Tic : In: Jorinde Reznikoff, KP wing: Bomb it, Miss.Tic! With the graffiti artist in Paris. Hamburg 2011, Edition Nautilus, p. 72

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Miss.Tic: Street Art in Paris 2008 Quand le vain est tiré il faut le boire (actually: 'Whoever says A must also say B', but vin  = 'wine' replaced by vain  = 'in vain')

“I am a poet. I condense the urban space. "

- Miss.Tic : In: Jorinde Reznikoff, KP wing: Bomb it, Miss.Tic! With the graffiti artist in Paris. Hamburg 2011, Edition Nautilus, p. 11

In 1985 Miss.Tic decided to become active as a street artist herself . In the meantime she wrote shorter texts, concentrated their message and radicalized her language. Her first motif, which she stencilled in public space in Paris, contained the onomatopoeic ambiguous text: J'enfile l'art mur pour bombarder des mots coers. ( French: 'I put on the armor / wall art in order to bomb the mockers with heart-shaped words.') To this text, she assigned a self-portrait, which shows her sitting on the floor, holding her knees with a pensive face. She used her self-portrait in the initial phase to illustrate her texts. Miss.Tic also refined the typography of her stencil font during this time . She borrowed her stage name from Miss Tick , the sorceress from the Donald Duck comic in the French translation, which at the same time onomatopoeically connects to the word mystique (French: 'mystical'). As time went on, Miss.Tic decided against the self-portrait due to the technical complexity and instead used photos from women's magazines as a template. By using the stencil technique, by using black paint and especially by adding text, these images get a different look and a different meaning. They were perceived as provocative, aggressive and disruptive. Miss.Tic increasingly reflected the image of women presented in the media and incorporated these reflections into her texts and depictions of women.

Through a chance encounter, the French fashion designer agnès b. attention to Miss.Tic. In 1986 she showed a joint exhibition of various street artists - including Miss.Tic - in her gallery under the motto vite fait - bien fait (done quickly - well done). In addition to Miss.Tic, the Ecole de Blek le Rat postulated by Le Monde included the pochoirists Jérome Mesnager, Marie Rouffet, Thierry Gauthé, Etherno, Epsilon and Surface Active. Miss.Tic - coming from a proletarian milieu - did not feel properly accepted by these academically trained artists. So she never formed a collective , but always worked alone.

Since 1991 Miss.Tic has been represented with her works in galleries and in the art world. Since 1993 Miss.Tic has published her texts or texts and photos of her works in books, initially self-published, from 1998 in regular publishers. She also illustrated various books.

In 1999 Miss.Tic was fined 22,000 francs for her work as a street artist or for “damage to public and private property”. Since a further conviction would have resulted in a prison sentence, she decided to carry out “Muses e Hommes” as a commissioned project for her next project and to obtain prior approval for it as for all other projects. For “Muses e Hommes” (2000) she used works from the Louvre or the Musée d'Orsay as models. Your texts comment on the history of the picture or the history of the painters. “Muses et Hommes” criticizes male dominance in museums. With “Muses et Hommes” Miss.Tic made a career leap. In 2009 Miss.Tic repeated “Muses et Hommes” with works from the Ingres Museum in Montauban.

Miss.Tic opened up new fields of work and opportunities to earn money over and over again during her career. She designed the poster for the film The Woman Divided in Two by Claude Chabrol (2007), the poster for the documentary Les Travailleu (r) ses du sexe about sex workers by Jean-Michel Carré (2010) and a series of postage stamps for the French Post on the occasion of International Women's Day on May 8th (2011). She also designs products (a designer handbag for the Lamarthe company), advertising (for a rental car rental) and the design of tram line 5 from Montpellier . Her advertising activities met with criticism in the street art scene based on non-commercialism , credibility and street credibility , saying she was selling out her ideals and was now only decorative instead of provocative. Miss.Tic, on the other hand, emphasizes the transience of countercultures . For them, it's a way of making a living from their art:

"Yes, I am a worker too, only my profession is called" painting and writing ""

- Miss.Tic : In: Maxi Leinkauf: Bombig. In: Friday , May 6, 2011

Exhibitions

Works by Miss.Tic in museums

• 1989: Fonds municipal d'art contemporain, Paris
• 2005: Victoria and Albert Museum , London

Publications by Miss.Tic

• 1993: Miss.Tic: Miss.Tic se livre , Paris 1993, self-published
• 1994: Miss.Tic: Corps a coer , Paris 1994, self-published
• 1994: Miss.Tic: Je m'ecrié, tu me lies , Paris 1994, self-published
• 1994: Miss.Tic: Je m'édite tu médites , Paris 1994, self-published
• 1998: Miss.Tic: Je ne fais que passer , Paris 1998, Editions Florent Massot, with photos by Lerat
• 2000: Miss.Tic: Muses e Hommes , Paris 2000, exhibition catalog, self-published
• 2003: Miss.Tic: Re Garde Moi. Paris 2003, Éditiones Alternatives, with a foreword by the feminist writer and editor Régine Deforges
• 2004: Miss.Tic: Miss.Tic Attak. Verlag Alternatives, 2004, ISBN 978-2-86227-427-0
• 2005: Miss.Tic: Miss.Tic.in Paris , Paris-Musées publishing house and Critères éditions publishing house, 2005, ISBN 978-2-917829-06-6
• 2006: Miss.Tic: Parisiennes , Paris 2006, Editions Lelia Mordoch
• 2008: Miss.Tic: Je prête à rire mais je donne à penser. Grasset Publishing House, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-246-70821-6
• 2009: Miss.Tic: Larousse , illustration for an anniversary edition of the Petit Larousse encyclopedia
• 2010: Miss.Tic: À la vie, à l'Amor. Grenoble, 2010, Verlag Critères éditions, Collection Opus Délits, texts and photos by Miss.Tic with a foreword by Pierre-François Moreau, ISBN 978-2-917829-08-0
• 2012: Miss.Tic: L'Étoffe des Eros , Edition du Renard Pales, limited to 30 copies
• 2013: Albert Jaquard, Miss.Tic: L 'ABC du Albert Jaquard pour changer le monde. 2013, Hachette Jeunesse publishing house, ISBN 2-01-292152-3

Miss.Tic and feminism

By processing common media images of women and their connotations with texts, Miss.Tic converts the statements of the templates into critical statements. Her criticism revolves around the place of women in society and male dominance in the art world. She has been criticized and sometimes even attacked by feminists for her sex-positive perspective on images of women. B. by Fadela Amara , a co-founder of the French post-migrant feminist group Ni Putes Ni Soumises . Her works in public spaces were sprayed with slogans such as “Le porno ras-le-bol” (“Nose full of porn”) by feminists critical of pornography, pasted with posters, she was verbally attacked in discussions, her work was considered vulgar, sexist and sometimes even referred to as pornographic. It has been criticized that Miss.Tic depicts women as objects and that her works represent a humiliating image of women. They did not notice that Miss.Tic is not simply repeating these portraits of women from fashion and advertising, but reinterpreting them, questioning them critically, placing them in their social context and giving them a critical statement. Her aim is to increase the visibility of women and to play with the clichéd gender role models .

“Out of a provocation I created a literary fiction out of the black of the mascara and painted women to give language back a body. The images of women that I have alienated come from women's newspapers. I use them to create a certain image of women, not to advertise, but to question them. I subject female positions to a kind of inventory. "

- Miss.Tic : Edition Nautilus, website for the publication BOMB IT, MISS.TIC!

Because of the misunderstanding of the feminist content of Miss.Tic's work and because of the hostility, Miss.Tic differentiates itself from feminism, Miss.Tic nevertheless relates positively to sex-positive feminist authors such as Virginie Despentes , George Sand and Marguerite Duras . On the occasion of her exhibition Femme de l'être (2011) she showed portraits of Patti Smith , Albertine Sarrazin , Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan , Colette , Christine Angot , Anaïs Nin , Amélie Nothomb , Régine Deforges, Virginia Woolf , Virginie Despentes and Simone de Beauvoir who outline their cosmos of the history of ideas. She sees herself as an anarchist .

See also

• Urban art
• List of graffiti and street artists

literature

• Jorinde Reznikoff, KP Flügel (Ed.): Bomb is, Miss.Tic !. With the graffiti artist in Paris. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89401-738-5 (= Small library for hand and head . Volume 62).
• Christophe Génin: Miss.Tic, femme de l'etre. Editions Impressiones Nouvelle, Paris 2009.
• neopostdadasurrealpunkshow: The graffiti poet Miss.Tic in Situ - situationist-fragmentary revue. Radio broadcast on the Freie Sender Kombinat Hamburg (FSK), September 14, 2012.
• Marie-Pierre Massé, Nicolas Deville: Vite fait, bien fait. Edition Alternatives, Paris 1986.
• Solange Pierson: Pochoir à la une. Edition Parallèles, Paris 1986.

Web links

Commons : Miss.Tic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Miss.Tic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Maxi Leinkauf: Bombig. In: Friday, May 6, 2011
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} Jorinde Reznikoff, KP wing: Bomb it, Miss.Tic! With the graffiti artist in Paris. Hamburg 2011, Edition Nautilus
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Coralie Jacquier: Miss.Tic - The diva of French street art in Berlin. In: La Gazette de Berlin, July 28, 2011
4. ↑ Christophe Génin in: Jorinde Reznikoff, KP wing: Bomb it, Miss.Tic! With the graffiti artist in Paris. Hamburg 2011, Edition Nautilus, p. 39
5. ↑ Julia Reinecke: Street Art: a subculture between art and commerce. Bielefeld 2012, Transkript Verlag, 2nd edition
6. ↑ Nautilus brings "Bomb it, Miss.Tic!" and the street artist's French postal stamps. In: Book Market, February 23, 2011
7. ↑ Y. PO .: Montpellier: un design tout en rupture pour la ligne 5 du tramway. In: MidiLibre, October 18, 2013
8. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in the Christophe Gallery ( memento of the original from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in the Sanguine Gallery ( memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in the Christophe Gallery ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in Passage Saint Sébastien ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Epita ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the Fiap solo exhibition ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in the French Ministry of Finance ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works of the Muses et Hommes project ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Héroïne ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Regarde Moi ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Miss.Tic Présidente ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Miss.Tic Erotic ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Vain cœur vain cul ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Femme mur ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Femme mur ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Maudites sorcières ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Parisienne ( Memento des original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Miss.Tic Présidente ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Je crois en l'éternel féminin ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
27. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Je prête à rire, mais je donne à penser ( memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
28. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Go Homme ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
29. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition L'Eros de la Vie ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
30. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in Galerie AB ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
31. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Folle à délier ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
32. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Parisienne ( Memento des Originals from July 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
33. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition À la Vie A l'Amor ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
34. ↑ ^{a b} Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Femme de l'être ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
35. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Muses et Hommes ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
36. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with flyer for the solo exhibition in the Espace Saint Exupéry Franconville ( Memento of the original of January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
37. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition Secret d'atelier ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
38. ↑ Miss.Tic website, subpage with works from the solo exhibition in the Médiathèque José Cabanis in Toulouse ( Memento of the original of November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
39. ↑ Les Uns et les Unes, l'exposition de Miss. Tic à la Galerie W. Website SortiraParis, August 9, 2013
40. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Website of Miss.Tic, Lélia Mordoch: Carton d'invitation de l'exposition "Secret d'atelier" à la galerie Lélia Mordoch du 1st June on 13th June 2012 , Curriculum vitae with a list of publications by MIss.Tic ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
41. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} CV of Miss.Tic on the website of the Lelia Mordoch gallery
42. ↑ "Je m'écris, tu me lies" on the Miss.Tic website ( memento of the original from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
43. ↑ Larousse website, subpage to Miss.Tic