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Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media is pleased to invite you to hear Dr Kathy Battista ofSotheby’s Institute of Art, New York
22 March 2012 @ 4pm in Lecture Theatre A at Winchester School of Art
Open to public and free to attend.
Dr Battista will be speaking on:
“The Legacy of Feminist Performance Art”
The legacy of 1970s feminist performance art has informed a new generation of artists including Kate Gilmore, Agathe Snow, Liz Magic Laser, and K8 Hardy. Their work investigates ongoing issues around gender, sexuality and identity, but is equally concerned with issues including the mediation of global news events, economic and class struggle, as well as domestic and foreign politics.
Kathy Battista will discuss how the practice of these feminist performance artists has evolved to acknowledge a new agenda including the relationship with mainstream institutions and the art market.Radical practitioners from the 1970s, including Kate Walker, Jo Spence and the Hackney Flashers, Linder, and Carolee Schneemann will feature prominently in the talk as examples of the legacy of feminism in the mainstream art system. Dr Battista will also look at how museums, galleries, the art market, and academia have adapted to globalization with transformative and event-based work.
Dr Battista asks: is ‘performance art’ still a viable term for the vast array of activities it incorporates? Just as ‘feminism’ is an ideology that encompasses several political stances, ‘performance’ may be considered a fluid and shifting term.
Dr Kathy Battista is Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York and Associate Senior Research Fellow at Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is co-curating theSweethearts: Creative Couples exhibition currently on show at the Pippy Houldswoth Gallery in London.
Best regards,
August :-)
Dr August Jordan Davis
WSA Senior Research Fellow
Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media
Winchester School of Art
University of Southampton
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