ALL MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN 2012: Feminist curatorial practices, talk by Lara Perry and Francesco Ventrella | 2 November 5-7pm

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Feminist curatorial practices, talk by Lara Perry and Francesco Ventrella

5-7pm | Free to attend RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGEwOEtvZ2xzd3FpVTlTYjQ4ekpjX2c6MQ#gid=0
@ Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths University of London

Departing from All My Independent Women as an ongoing experiment to exhibit feminist practices within the arts in ways that propose new modes of accountability and that question the structures and systems in place in the arts, this conversation will explore notions of feminist curation, distribution and archiving. Questioning, how can we (artists, curators, art historians and cultural producers), not only make visible feminist art practices, but also bring about systemic change into the art world?

Lara Perry is Principal Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton. Lara was the lead applicant in the Leverhulme international research network that investigated 'Transnational Perspectives on Women's Art, Feminism and Curating' (2010-12), and one of the organizers of Civil Partnerships, a programme of exhibition and debates on feminist and queer curating at the University of Brighton with a symposium at Tate Modern in May 2012. Her book History's Beauties: Women in the National Portrait Gallery 1856-1900 (2006) is a study of gender in the collection, administration and audience of the museum.

Francesco Ventrella is Teaching Fellow in Art History at the University of Sussex. He is the former editor of parallax and a founding member of the independent art space 1:1 project in Rome. His research focuses on the intersection between writing (in the broadest sense), materialities and temporalities in art and visual culture. With Sibyl Fisher he is the co-instigator of the postgraduate research project Curatorial Affinities which investigates curating as a feminist practice.

ALL MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN 2012
Interested in understanding and supporting feminist modes of production and circulation of artists' practices that deal with issues around gender, this project marks the coming together of three important archives: the Women's Art Library/Make, the Open Music Archive, and the AMIW Video Lounge.

The programme combines a series of talks, workshops, round table discussions, and viewings hosted at Goldsmiths University of London over a three months period, and two music commissions to be premiered on the 16 November at Cafe OTO.

With: Miguel Bonneville, Genève Brossard, Ele Carpenter, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa, Hyun Jin Cho, Carla Cruz, Beatrice Dillon, Mónica Faria, Althea Greenan, Karen Gwyer, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Risk Hazekamp, Nina Hoechtl, Anna Jonsson, Alex Martinis Roe, Cristina Mateus, Susana Mendes Silva, Sameiro Oliveira Martins, Lara Perry, Rita Rainho, Flávio Rodrigues, Eileen Simpson, Evelin Stermitz, Francesco Ventrella, Lenka Vráblíková, Ben White.

Exploring the different forms of distribution, promotion, and preservation performed by these archives that were once living networks, All My Independent Women 2012 searches for new modes of accountability and circulation within the arts that are based on dialogue with a potential for re-invention.


FULL PROGRAMME
@ Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths University of London

27 September – 14 December | AMIW Video Lounge | Collection of video art by feminist artists belonging to All My Independent Women's network

28 September 5-7pm | Practicing Sexual Difference | Workshop by Alex Martinis Roe

10 October 5-7pm | Archival Materials, Practices, Politics and Poetics | Workshop by Hyun Jin Cho and Nina Hoechtl

2 November 5-7pm | Feminist Curatorial Practices | Talk by Lara Perry and Francesco Ventrella

Free to attend | RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGEwOEtvZ2xzd3FpVTlTYjQ4ekpjX2c6MQ#gid=0

9 November 5-7pm | The Creative Commons within the Arts | Round table discussion with Ele Carpenter (Embroidered Digital Commons), and Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive)
Free to attend, RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFlnQmFDamRfandleU1SbE5RUkpnaHc6MQ#gid=0

5 December 5-7pm | Re-engaging Archived Art Practices | Guided exploration of the Women's Art Library and the Women's Revolutions Per Minute archives by Althea Greenan and Mika Hayashi Ebbesen
Free to attend | RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG5KUHJuWllBOFFGOEpmUktZZnVEbmc6MQ#gid=0
 
Women's Art Library/Make
Goldsmiths University of London
Special Collections Reading Room – Rutherford Building (Library)
New Cross, London, SE14 6AF
www.gold.ac.uk/make
a.greenan@gold.ac.uk
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm (Wednesdays until 7pm)

@ Cafe OTO
16 November 8pm | The Brilliant and the Dark – B Side Samples for Remix | An Open Music Archive Project | Performances by Karen Gwyer, Beatrice Dillon, and the Open Music Archive

Cafe OTO
18 - 22 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL
Advance tickets available via http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

More information can be found at http://amiw2012.blogspot.co.uk


All My Independent Women 2012 is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England