Tate Modern, 27 June 2009 The
Women’s Art Library/Make and Feminist
Review presented an evening of rediscovery and new feminist
performance art organised by Oriana
Fox recipient of the Art
in the Archive: Living with Make Bursary 2009. Appropriating
gestures, language and concepts from the history of feminist performance
art the event highlighted the legacy of the field’s forerunners
and commented on how their work has been reinterpreted, subverted or perhaps
even ignored by contemporary women’s performance practice. The newspaper/catalogue
The Moon was published by CT
Editions to coincide with the event as a parallel artwork
documenting and extending the its themes. |
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Additional performers: Shir Aloni, Judy Batalion, Sharon Bennett, Melanie Clifford, Marja Commandeur, Lucy Dear, Marlon Dolcy, Sarah Dadzie, Laura Eagland, Angela Monti Fox, Michael Fox, Penelope Granycombe, Fabian Hartwell, Antje Hildebrand, Georgina Leahy, Carole Luby, Genevieve Maxwell, Jake McGarry, Bruce Sharp, Lorraine Smith, Magdalena Suranyi, Aaron Williamson and Arlene Wandera | ||||||||||
The
event was made possible through the financial support of: Goldsmiths College.
Feminist Review, LCACE, Tate Modern, The Danish Arts Council and the National
Lottery through The Arts Council England. |
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(Click
on the images to see more about each performance.) |
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