WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. 

The exhibition, curated by Connie Butler, spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. Comprising work in a broad range of media - including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art -, the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. 

This exhibition was displayed on the entire First and Second Floors and in the Third Floor Main Gallery of P.S.1 from February 17, 2008 through May 12, 2008.

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Originally aired on Monday, October 27th, 2008
Recorded Sunday March 9, 2008 at PS1 as part of the WACK! show

New films by women filmmakers about the Feminist Revolution: Heretics

A Heretics film preview by Joan Braderman,...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, October 20th, 2008
Recorded Sunday March 9, 2008 at PS1 as part of the WACK! show

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Originally aired on Monday, April 7th, 2008
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on March 16, 2008. This series of performances featured poets Myra Mniewski and Chana Pollack, writer Tisa Bryant and folksinger/filmmaker Emily...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 31st, 2008
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on March 16, 2008.Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 31st, 2008
The event was recorded at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 24, 2008. The panel featured Marlene McCarty and John Lindell (Gran Fury), Joyce Kozloff (Artists Against the War), Doug Ashford (Group Material) and...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 24th, 2008
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 24, 2008. Pink Bloque Revisited was an interactive workshop with re-united members of the radical Chicago street dance troupe, Pink...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 24th, 2008
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Originally aired on Monday, March 17th, 2008
The event was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on February 16, 2008. I.U.D. is a musical performance by the artists Lizzie Bougatsos and Sadie Laska.Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 17th, 2008
The panel was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on March 1, 2008. With guests Carolee Schneemann, Peggy Ahwesh, Ara Osterweil, Barbara Hammer, Melissa Ragona, moderated by editor Robin Blaetz....Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 10th, 2008
The panel - with guests Margaret Harrison, Nil Yalter, Kirsten Justesen, Lisa Steele and Lorraine O'Grady; moderated by Jo Anna Isaak; and introduced by AIR's David Weinstein - was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 at P.S.1...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, January 28th, 2008
Artist Lorraine O'Grady in conversation with WACK! curator Connie Butler in January 2008.Read More
Originally aired on Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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Originally aired on Monday, May 29th, 2006
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Originally aired on Monday, February 6th, 2006


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Originally aired on Monday, November 21st, 2005
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