Description
This talk forms part of a collaborative project initiated and led by the artist Anne Bean. Triggered by the recent deaths of five committed, searching women artists – Monica Ross, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alexis Hunter, Sue Arrowsmith and Rita Harris (all of whom Bean had known since the 1970s) – this project seeks to engage with ‘dialogues through time’ to explore questions of archives, ontology, consciousness and identity, to result in an inter-related programme involving performances, photographic collaborations, an exhibition, and a publication.In this talk Eleanor Roberts, a feminist scholar whose research focuses on feminist historiographies and archival studies of performance, begins to map out some of the legacies of these artists, as well as the importance of a transgenerational mode of engagement. Focusing particularly on Harris and Hunter (who are subjects of Bean’s Coleman Project Space exhibition, which also includes collaborations with Manuel Vason), and the questions posed by Bean, she suggests ways in which their innovations in performance and related forms continue to offer prescient models for re-thinking approaches to art and art’s histories as a critical and permissive space of exchange.
| Period | 9 Apr 2017 |
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| Held at | Coleman Projects (Gallery), United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |