Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 8: Tooling Era (2000s)

2007

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Exhibition · North America

Some thirty of the exhibiting artists gathered outdoors beneath the WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution banner at the entrance to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007.
Some thirty of the exhibiting artists gathered outdoors beneath the WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution banner at the entrance to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, March 4 - July 16, 2007 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Brian Forrest.

Organized by MOCA Curator Connie Butler, this was the first major museum exhibition to comprehensively examine the global impact and legacy of feminist art from 1965 to 1980. This pivotal era, marked by intense feminist activism and creativity, is explored through a diverse array of media including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video and performance. The exhibition features works from approximately 120 artists across 21 countries, highlighting the intercontinental connections and themes that emerged from feminist art practice during this period. The exhibition included important digital, generative and participatory works by women artists such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, Yoko Ono and Yvonne Rainer respectively.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Connie Butler, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer

Movements

Chance Dance, Participatory Art, Performance Art, video art

Filed under

Ideas
Chance Dance, digital art, feminism, feminist art, generative art, Participatory Art, performance, Performance Art, video art
People
Connie Butler, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer
Exhibitions
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
Organisations
MOCA
Places
Los Angeles

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