AFTER THE REVOLUTION?
ARTISTS RESPOND TO THE SECOND WAVE

April 12, 2008 at 3pm
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

(Long Island City, NY – March 27, 2008) As it celebrates and examines feminist art from the 1970s, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution fosters dialogue about feminism’s impact on successive generations of women artists. How does the legacy and mythos of women’s liberation movements inform, influence, inspire, and provoke artists born “after the revolution”? What residual effect has this seminal work had on later generations of artists and with second wave feminism? Artists and filmmakers Johanna Fateman, Sharon Hayes, Liza Johnson, Laura Parnes, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi will explore issues of generationalism, cross-influences, and problems of passing the torch in a panel organized and moderated by Elisabeth Subrin.

Johanna Fateman is a member of feminist punk electronic band Le Tigre, as well as the DJ/production/remix team MEN. She is co-owner of the New York West Village hair salon Seagull.

Sharon Hayes’s work moves between multiple mediums—video, performance, installation—in an ongoing investigation into the interrelation between history, politics and speech. She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from practices such as performance, theater, dance, anthropology and journalism.

Liza Johnson’s work has been exhibited widely in film festivals, galleries, and museums, including the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Center, and the ICA Philadelphia. Her film South of Ten was selected to open the New York Film Festival in 2006 and most recently, she is producing the feature film, Return.

Laura Parnes’s video and installations are informed by traditions and genres in both narrative film and video art. She has screened and exhibited her work widely in the US and internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and at The Museum of Modern Art. 

Elisabeth Subrin’s film and video projects examine relationships between history and female subjectivity, and the nature of evidence. Her trilogies of experimental biographies have exhibited in solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and in group shows including The Whitney Biennial and The Guggenheim Museum.  

Ginger Brooks Takahashi is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and the MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. Her work has recently been shown in Shared Women at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Exile of the Imaginary at the Generali Foundation, Vienna.

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, includes work by 120 international artists and artist groups who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as artists who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. The exhibition is currently on view on the entire First and Second Floor through May 12, 2008.

For more information about WACK! and P.S.1 public programs visit, www.ps1.org.

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
The presentation of the exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is made possible by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Agnes Gund, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, and the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Additional support is provided by The Modern Women’s Fund, David Teiger, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
The presentation at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles was made possible by The Annenberg Foundation. Additional generous support was provided by Geraldine and Harold Alden; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Peter Norton Family Foundation; Audrey M. Irmas; The Jamie and Steve Tisch Foundation; The MOCA Contemporaries; Wells Fargo Foundation; The Broad Art Foundation; Vivian and Hans Buehler; the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Donor Advised Fund at the Boston Foundation; Étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; the Robert Lehman Foundation; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V., Stuttgart; the Pasadena Art Alliance; Frances Dittmer Family Foundation; the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation; Peg Yorkin; Merrill Lynch; the Fifth Floor Foundation; The Cowles Charitable Trust; Rosette V. Delug; The Herringer Family Foundation; and the Polish Cultural Institute. Major support was also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy with the members of the WACK! Women's Consortium.