Exhibiting Feminisms

This course asks students to develop a
collaborative project that will respond to the
exhibition "Mobilizing Contents: Feminist Art
Program" to be held at REDCAT gallery downtown LA,
from Sept 6 to Dec 20, 2023. This exhibition
activates the CalArts Feminist Art Program Archive
to generate collective knowledges based on
artistic experimentation and pedagogy. Multiple
readings of the exhibition, as proposed by
contemporary artists, will offer intersectional
feminist views to dialogue with current social
movements and its legacies. We will work together
to explore key questions and ideas that emerge
from the exhibition by analyzing the show itself
as well as the archives that it features, and the
histories and legacies of the feminisms that are
claimed. We will explore the context of the show
as well as address the larger political
implications of exhibition and archival practices
to ask if exhibiting feminism can be feminist.
What are feminist practices today in art making
and curating and how are these informed by or
resistant to these precedents? The course involves
some field trips to REDCAT at various stages
during the class as well as the possibility of
realizing a class project at REDCAT in response to
the exhibition. These visits may take place on
Saturdays. It will be each student's
responsibility to get to REDCAT for these
meetings.