In this topical playlist, we meet four pioneering artists from three generations of feminist art. From the late Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019), who shocked the art world in 1975 by performing nude, unfurling a narrow roll of paper from her vagina, in the groundbreaking Interior Scroll, to millennial Allison Zuckerman (b. 1990), whose reappropriations of art historical tropes give rise to a bricolage of feminist figuration, each of the artists featured in this playlist takes on the patriarchal norms of the art world and society at large.
Where Art Meets Activism, Issue 6 of our Research Guide, investigates the issues and ideas that inform curators and artists whose creative work aims for real and lasting change.
Where does art meet activism? Activism has long been a way for artists and curators, writers and filmmakers to engage with global flashpoints, inspiring new…
Maria Alyokhina on Political Art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, Justice for Political Prisoners, and Working with Belarus Free Theatre Maria Alyokhina, a member of the…
Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer documentary tells the story of Maria Alyokhina, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Katia Samutsevich, members of the radical feminist art collective Pussy Riot. In…
