On Tuesday Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts will be partnering at the latter’s Valencia Street space to screen The Heretics and !Women Art Revolution as part of programming for the Clips & Conversation series. Both projects are in post-production and focus on the feminist art movement since the 1970s (I’m blue about the discussions about the films falling on the same evening at Ignite Bay Area).
Local filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !WAR includes interviews with artists Judy Chicago and Hannah Wilke about what might be phrased their “radical political work”–or “compelling,” depending on how you look at it:
The gallery space will also be hosting “The Bodies Are Back,” a collection of work by British feminist artist Margaret Harrison, whose art has included critiques of beauty as depicted by the cosmetics and film industries. Her work in the Tate’s public collection is well worth exploring, with or without titles including “Good Enough to Eat” and “Little Woman at Home.”
[...] I wrote about !Women Art Revolution last year, I anticipated that artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s [...]