RA Schools Public Programme: Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with Ciara Moloney
Thursday 1 October 2015 6.30 - 8.30pm
Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
£7, £4 reductions. Any returned tickets will be sold on the door of the event from 6pm.
RA Schools Public Programme supported by the David Lean Foundation
Acclaimed artist and filmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson discusses women in art now, identity and consumerism.
Lynn Hershman Leeson examines the first 45 minutes of her 80 minute film !Women Art Revolution (2010). This prizewinning film chronicles the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States in the context of the 1960's anti-war and civil rights movement. Rare video footage and interviews include Marcia Tucker, Yvonne Rainer, Mike Kelly, Judy Chicago, Martha Rosler and the Guerilla Girls (see a full list of interviews here).
Ciara Moloney is Curator of Exhibitions and Projects at Modern Art Oxford where she has curated exhibitions by Barbara Kruger, Josh Kline, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christian Boltanski, Kiki Kogelnik, Debora Delmar Corp. and Patricia L Boyd. Prior to this, Moloney curated independent projects Victoria (2013) and Jerusalem (2012-2013) where she co-commissioned work by artists including Marlo Pascual, Aaron Angell, Allison Katz, Becky Beasley, Simon Martin and Ursula Mayer.
In a specially commissioned essay, artist and activist Rose Gibbs discusses contemporary Womanhouse(s) and the impact of the women's movement on artists today.
All tickets include a drink.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. She has pioneered new technologies in her ongoing investigation of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is a recipient of the d.velop digital art Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a Siggraph Lifetime Achievement Award, Eureka and Rainen Fellowships, Prix Ars Electronica Grand Prize, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her four feature films – Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving Ada and !Women Art Revolution – are all in distribution. They have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival, among others. !Women Art Revolution received the Grand Prize in 2013 from the Festival of films on Art in Montreal.
She recently had a retrospective, CIVIC RADAR at ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, with a forthcoming catalogue. This is now at Semmerling Falkenburg in Hamburg until November. Modern Art Oxford mounted Leeson's solo show Origins of a Species (Part 2) in summer 2015.