Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions
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CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
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Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions is a student-organized project based at California Institute of the Arts that seeks to produce discourse around the questions and contexts of contemporary feminist practice in art and society. The project encompasses projects and workshops proposed by students from across the schools of CalArts, a curated exhibition of student, faculty, and alumni works addressing feminism, a feminist performance series, and a day-long symposium of panel discussions with guest artists, activists, and curators.
WHY FEMINISM, NOW?
Feminism continues to be relevant and necessary as a continually evolving body of thought and action that takes as its subject lived experience, psychological, social, and cultural constructions. It projects new modes of thought and action into these spheres and disrupts the status quo. However, by its very structure, feminism has resisted easy definition. To ask the question, "What is feminism?" is to also ask, "What feminisms exist today?"Since the emergence of the Second Wave of feminism in the 1970's, there has been an impulse in society and culture to demarcate categorical and historical divisions within feminism. By embarking on the Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions project, we are seeking to understand feminism through a process of porous exchanges, between generations, individuals, and disciplines in the arts.
We are inspired by the legacy of Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro's ground-breaking Feminist Art Program (1972-1974) at CalArts, the Feminist Art Workshop (FAWS) and F-Word Conference (1998) at CalArts, and the upcoming MOCA Geffen Contemporary Exhibition "WACK! Art & the Feminist Revolution" curated by Connie Butler.
PROJECT ORGANIZERS
Exhibition | Elana Mann, Theresa Masangkay, Vincent Ramos
Curatorial Assistant | Hayley Blatte
Performance & Film Series | Loren Fenton, Laida Lertxundi, Sibyl O'Malley, Bethany Umbach
Symposium | Audrey Chan, Jason Kunke
Design | Roman Jaster, Teira Johnson, Eileen Levinson, Clarissa Tossin
Wall Building Workshop | Saul Alvarez, Liz Glynn
Public Relations | Nicholas Grider
Website | Audrey Chan, Eileen Levinson
Volunteers | Kiki Johnson
Faculty Advisers | Karen Atkinson, Jessica Bronson, Kaucyila Brooke, Nancy Buchanan, Leslie Dick, Sam Durant, Connie Hatch, Thomas Lawson, Christine Wertheim, Millie Wilson
SUPPORT
Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions was made possible through the generous support of CalArts' President's Office, School of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Student Life Fund, and Student Council
SPECIAL THANKS
Karen Baxter, Margaret Crane, Donovan Vim Crony, Andrew Freeman, Yvonne Guy, Coco Halverson, John Hogan, Catherine Hollander, Dean Houchin, Suzanne Isken, Joanne Jewett, Emery Martin, Sandra Mueller, Sean Murphy, Cory Peipon, Andrea Richards, Lynn Rosenfeld, Carol Stakenas, Aandrea Stang, Trader Joe's, Sharon Yeates
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