Feminism – Conceptual Art & Feminism?!

Feminism in Appenzell?

My preoccupation with feminism in the USA led me to the question: What’s it like here, in Appenzell?

Oh, Lucy! Screening with live sound recording

In August 2022, I was wandering around New York and thinking out loud about conceptual art and feminism. Morena Barra accompanied me with her camera. Over the past few months, we have edited the footage and are now inviting you to a screening where the short film will be set to music live by Hannah Wirnsperger!

Lucy R. Lippard about Conceptual Art and Feminism

INTERVIEW WITH LUCY R. LIPPARD

Catherine Morris about “Materializing Six Years”

INTERVIEW WITH CATHERINE MORRIS

!Women Art Revolution: Lynn Hershman Leeson

INTERVIEW WITH LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON

Amy Smith-Stewart about “52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone”

INTERVIEW WITH AMY SMITH-STEWART

Feminist initiatives of the 1970s in NY and LA

In the 1970s, art and society were on the move and Lucy Lippard was in the thick of it. An art critic, author, curator, and political and cultural activist, she helped found organizations such as the Ad Hoc Women’s Art Committee, the Art Workers Coalition or Heresies – and was involved in many other initiatives.

HERESIES: A Feminist Magazine on Art and Politics

“Heresies” appears again and again in the correspondence of Lucy Lippard. In personal messages on postcards or in letters, it becomes clear: Heresies is an important, if grueling, project for all involved.

National Museum of Women in the Arts: Since 1987

The opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in the summer of 1987 was met with controversy beforehand. It headlines the Washington City Paper: Feminism and the Art of Museum Maintenance; Wilhelma Holladay had – almost single-handedly – established the National Museum of Women in the Arts. So why aren’t feminist cheering?

Archives of American Art: First Traces of Conceptual Art and Feminism in Lippard’s Papers

The Archives of American Art (AAA) is the world’s leading and most widely used research center for the visual arts in America. The institution is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making accessible primary sources that document the history of visual art in America over the past 200 years.