FILM SCREENING
! WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
A film by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Co-presented with: CINEMA POLITICA
Monday December 5th at 7 pm
Introduction by Krista Geneviève Lynes
H-110 Alumni Auditorium
Henry F. Hall Building, local H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve West
Guy-Concordia Metro
Through interviews, art, and archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the feminist art movement fused free speech and politics and radically transformed the art and culture of our times.The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art.
DURATION: 83 minutes
Interviews: Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni , Judith Baca , Judith Brodsky , Cornelia Butler , Tammy Rae Carland , Judy Chicago , Alexandra Chowaniec , Beatriz da Costa , Claire Daigle , Sheila De Bretteville , Mary Beth Edelson , Howard Fox , Susan Grode , Guerrilla Girls , Harmony Hammond , Alanna Heiss , Lynn Hershman Leeson , Amelia Jones , Miranda July , Yael Kanarek , Mike Kelley , Joyce Kozloff , Robert Kushner , Suzanne Lacy , Krista G. Lynes , Howardena Pindell , Yvonne Rainer , Maura Reilly , B. Ruby Rich , Faith Ringgold , Martha Rosler , Moira Roth , Rachel Rosenthal , Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler , Miriam Schapiro , Lowery Stokes Sims ,Silvia Sleigh , Nancy Spero , Marcia Tucker, Camille Utterback , Cecilia Vicuña , Faith Wilding, Martha Wilson.
Krista Geneviève Lynes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, holds a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and taught previously at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her research examines the intersections of video art and documentary in making visible feminist political subjects, questions of embodiment, gender and sexuality, postcolonial and transnational examinations of culture, and questions of witnessing, spectatorship and encounter.
