Tuesday 14 February 2012, 6.30–9pm
This event is free, but space is limited and booking essential.
Event programme:
7pm Marina Vishmidt
7.30pm Claire Maklouf Carter
8pm Chicks on Speed
Confrontational Perspectives, reawakens the spirit of Book Works: A Women’s Perspective (1992) in a night of beats, provocation, screening and confrontations, in order to reposition feminist art against the complacency of anodyne participation and aspirational networks.
Through a screening and discussion of current work Marina Vishmidt presents her research into embodied practices which stage a negative critique of work from a feminist perspective in the art of the past several decades and argues that the critique of womens’ labour can also evoke the critique of another kind of labour: the labour of reproducing and performing gender in a disciplinary economy of representation.
Claire Makhlouf Carter, whose work DEMO – PENFOLD STREET explores the limits and antagonisms of performance, self-immolation, social relations and stench.
The event finishes with a Chicks On Speed Performance – Lecture, A MODEST PROPOSAL featuring: Melissa Logan, Anat Ben-David, Rachael Matthews and Sonja Todd.
This event is organised as part of the project Again, A Time Machine.
Again, A Time Machine continues as:
Stewart Home
Space, London
6 April – 19 May 2012
Sarah Pierce, The Artist Talks
The Showroom, London
18 April – 8 June 2012
Again, A Time Machine is a Book Works' touring exhibition in six parts that plays with and inverts notions of time, archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures.
MoreEstablished in 1984, Book Works is an art commissioning organisation specialising in artists’ books, spoken word and printed matter.
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