Exhibition floor talk | | #FEAS unfinished business
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Other
Publication Title
Exhibition floor talk | | #FEAS unfinished business
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
School
School of Arts and Humanities; ECU Galleries
Description
ARTIST | #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism | Lyndall ADAMS | Lilly BLUE | Jo DARBYSHIRE | Urszula DAWKINS | Emma FISHWICK | Natalie HARKIN | Sage J HARLOW | Linda KNIGHT | Jo LLOYD | Marziya MOHAMMEDALI | Annette NYKIEL | Performing Futures | So Fi Zine | Miriam STANNAGE | The Ediths Press | Cassandra TYTLER
Curated | Dr Jo POLLITT | #FEAS UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Exhibition Statement | Our archive is an archive of rebellion. It testifies to a struggle. To struggle for an existence is to transform an existence. No wonder: there is hope in the assembly – Sara Ahmed, 2015.
#FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, is an international feminist collective committed to developing creative interventions into sexisms in the academy and other places. It is co-led by Professor Mindy Blaise, Dr Emily Gray, and Dr Jo Pollitt. #FEAS use a mix of humour, irreverence and collective action to interrupt and disarm both everyday and institutional sexisms within Higher Education and other spaces. The interventions illustrate a feminism for our times that is creative, engaged, and affirmative.
#FEAS Unfinished Business features the archive of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism alongside work by Australian feminist artists. The exhibition brings into focus the ongoing and unfinished business of feminism and feminist activism as a social justice practice that interrupts white patriarchal heteronormative narratives. Alongside an assemblage of #FEAS work since 2016, is a selection of artwork from Australian feminist artists that relates to and challenges the concept of an expanded zine with ‘pages’ forming and turning in vastly different ways. From Miriam Stannage’s 1974 cover art for ‘Apollo’, an arts journal that didn’t exist, to Linda Knight’s 2022 commissioned textile response to the #FEAS archive, continuing with the participatory elements of #FEAS creative interventions, each of these works invites an engagement with embodied forms of knowing, doing and becoming.
Additional Information
Exhibition dates: 29 June - 28 July 2022