This course addresses feminist performance art through the lens of the art historical and the contemporary, with constant consideration of how historical concerns continue to manifest in the present. Feminist performance art of the 1970s quite specifically pulled from political actions surrounding the women’s movement, including active protests and collaborative consciousness-raising sessions. We focus on the work of artists such as Hannah Wilke, Ana Mendieta, Adrian Piper, Martha Wilson, and Suzanne Lacy, as a way to understand how their work reflects the multiple positions of feminism, and therefore operates as a reinforcement of the “personal as political” that sits at the center of feminist art. Throughout the course, we assess how and why feminist performance art incorporates questions of gender and sexual identity, as well as racial, ethnic, and class based concerns, and the reasons why feminist performance art is a particularly strategic way of addressing political interests. As performance is already a subversive act, in that it aims to destabilize absolute truths regarding the body and social categorizations, it may be viewed as a considerable tool for questioning and dismantling perceived rules that regulate social relations and bodily expectations.
☆Donation:
Guide
Specimen Garden
Cutting the Puppeteer´s Strings
For Data You Are, And To Data You Shall Return / 为数据所生，亦归数据而去
Disinformation - “Antithesis”
the end of work + USELESS Micro Commissions
Flowers in the Fire
THE UNFATHOMABLE UNDERSTANDING: MOSHGAN REZANIA & ROBERTA JEAN SMITH
Alexandra Hopf, Being Renée Sintenis & The Women of My Life
Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
Brea Weinreb - Between Men
Paik’s Video Study
Poetry and Performance. The Eastern European Perspective
MMCA Symposium : WHAT DO MUSEUMS CONNECT? MUSEUMS IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Farmer Designers: An art of living
Goyoson: not him, but them and Michel
Tilda Swinton Pays Tribute to the Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
