Now You Can Go: Rescue Missions: Women’s Art Recovered
Wed 9 Dec, 6.30pm ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH London, United Kingdom
Chaired by art historian Amy Tobin, speakers include artist Sonia Boyce, director of the Live Art Development Agency, Lois Keidan, art collector Valeria Napoleone and co-director of Hollybush Gardens, Lisa Panting.
In recent years various women artists, previously little-known outside feminist art circles, have been ‘rediscovered’ by artists, art historians, curators, collectors and dealers. These overdue rehabilitations often take place when artists are at the ends of their careers, or when they have already died. This talk considers some of the ethics, responsibilities of researching, archiving, curating, restaging, marketing and collecting women’s art, and the extent to which these activities combat its historical erasure. It asks which aspects of art by women are gaining visibility, and which are still unfashionable—or even troubling—today.
Tickets available through the ICA website
- Monica Ross, Acts of Memory, Photo: Bernard G Mills
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