Author Identifier (ORCID)
Jo Pollitt: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-7768
Mindy Blaise: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407
Abstract
#FEAS Unfinished Business features the archive of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism alongside work by Australian feminist artists.
The exhibition brings into focus a lineage of activist feminist art to invite thinking with practices that interrupt white patriarchal heteronormative narratives. The concept of an expanded zine connects the works, with ‘pages’ forming in vastly different ways. The exhibition offers irreverent, furious, funny, and tender insights toward connected and equitable feminist futures, unfinished…
#FEAS is an international feminist collective committed to developing creative interventions into sexisms in the academy and other places.
Non-Traditional Research Output
Curated Exhibition or Event
Document Type
Non-Traditional Research Output
Date of Publication
2022
Location of the Work
Spectrum Gallery
Research Statement
“#FEAS Unfinished Business” was an exhibition that featured 13 women-identifying Australian artists and artist-scholars including First Nations, Trans, and Queer artists such as Natalie Harkin, Jo Darbyshire, and Sage J Harlow, together with #FEAS (Feminist Educators Against Sexism) archive of participatory projects and artefacts (zines/toolkits/videos). The research asked, “how might curatorial practice be a catalyst for a multi-arts forum into the role of feminist activism today in the disrupting of pervasive white patriarchal heteronormative narratives”. The exhibition included videos of “The #FEAS Report” (2021), and “Wheel of (mis)fortune” (2022).
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts / School of Education, Centre for people, Place and Planet
RAS ID
82735
Links and/or Documentation
Event Title
#FEAS Unfinished Business
Event Dates
29 June-28 July 2022
Event Venue
ECU Galleries - Spectrum Gallery
Additional Information
4 weeks exhibition including work of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism and key works from Australian Feminist artists.
Exhibition of mixed media works plus #FEAS archive and videos.