Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

Join Dawn Woolley on the 29 October at The Photographer’s Gallery in London.
The exhibition highlights groundbreaking practices that shaped the feminist art movement and provides a timely reminder of the wide impact of a generation of artists.
Focusing on photographs, collage works, performances, films and videos produced throughout the 1970s, the exhibition reflects a moment during which practices of emancipation, gender equality and civil rights protest movements became part of public discourse. Through radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations, female artists were galvanised to use their work as further means of engagement – questioning feminine identities, gender roles and sexual politics through new modes of expression.

Later we will visit Tate Modern to view Marvin Faye Chetwynd’s Hermitos Children, the pilot episode 2008.
The film takes the form of a pilot episode of a television drama, following the protagonist Joan Shipman as she attempts to solve various sex-crimes and murders. However, unlike a conventional show the narrative of the film is vague and abstract.
Following this we will discuss the artworks, compare avant-garde and contemporary work by female artists, and talk about the representation of gender / gender politics as art-practice.
To reserve your place please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk or alternatively to request a place on a study visit please click here and complete the form.
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Images: Zerstörung einer Illusion, 1977 © Karin Mack / SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna
Roberta Construction Chart #1, 1975 © Lynn Hershman Leeson / SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna