WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest

Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest

Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest

Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest
Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest wackinstall-06.jpg Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest

Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest Installation view of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007, photo by Brian Forrest

Installation views of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 2007. Photos by Brian Forrest

Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Annegret Soltau speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Mimi Smith speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Carolee Schneemann speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Faith Wilding speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Yvonne Rainer speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Lorraine O’Grady speaks on the work of Senga Nengudi. Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Kirsten DuFour speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Monica Mayer speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Marta Minujin speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Sylvia Sleigh speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Lynn Hershman speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Martha Rosler speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Mary Bauermeister speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Lorraine O’Grady speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. ORLAN speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Magdalena Abakanowicz speaking at Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Images from Walks Through the Revolution, March 04, 2007. Held in conjunction with WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

13 Comments

  • #1.   allie 04.01.2007

    I really enjoyed myself and I plan to go back. I am taking my friends with me. And I can hardly wait to go back.

  • #2.   mariano 04.08.2007

    wow.
    greast display of feminist art and idealism that comes to ideas in times i didnt live in.
    wonderful, still , how to name it, hm, weird to accomodate the art since i didnt find too much relation between the pieces (well, all of them talked about women in some way).
    still, stand up applause for you guys.

  • #3.   mad...lyn :) 05.14.2007

    I really liked the notes on prostitution,I realy enjoyed the fact that something as seeming unmoral as prostitution can be seen as art.

    Thanks!

  • #4.   Lizz 05.17.2007

    I ejoyed myself greatly, especially the visual art done by Barbara Hammer. Tried to explain some of the art when I took my mom, but she couldn’t quite understand some of it and seemed to be, unshockingly, shocked at alot of the pieces. I am anxious to go back and take my girlfriend. I liked how the exhibition was surrounded with so many ideas and concepts all relating to woman and the feminist revolution.
    Loved it.

  • #5.   marshallastor.com » WACK!, finally 05.19.2007

    [...] Everyone I know who’s seen this show has derided it as a vagina-fest, and that’s not a far off description. The Judy Chicago nook comes immediately to mind. There’s also a huge amount of work in WACK! that strays far from cliche-territory, like Marta Minujin and Richard Squires’ Soft Gallery, a cube-like structure made out of mattresses strapped to an aluminum support structure, which was one of my favourite things in the show. Back on the “genital centric feminist art” angle, it was great to see Cosey Fanni Tutti’s work in the gallery (I’m a huge Chris and Cosey fan), her pornography based work got stronger reaction from viewers than anything else that I saw there. [...]

  • #6.   Loretta Young 05.21.2007

    I just found your page doing a paper for my last Art History class and am throughly impressed! I will be sending this link to my daughters and women friends! Thanks

  • #7.   Kimber 07.23.2007

    after seeing all the pix, I wish i was able to see the exhibit. as a young women trying to get into the art field, it is so nice to see many successful women artists that have a message to share. very beautiful work! :-)

  • #8.   nitya nanda ojha/faculty of fine art baroda INDIA 09.26.2007

    i found your paper from our libery , its very good atempt.i think it will change and give new language to feminism
    thankyou
    nityananda

  • #9.   tathi 06.22.2008

    Art and the Feminist Revolution..gr8 show most all work are amezzzzzing…gr8 viewing …

  • #10.   rozhgar 10.08.2008

    hello every one
    when i see that page ,,really i dont know about what happened at that time open the exhibition,, but i injoy that have a great movment about women artist ,,
    i hope to make more activity and have more communication with eastren artists
    im very happy to see that the eastren artist make partspation with other calture and find the best way to work

  • #11.   alanna 10.29.2008

    My husband and I went to the show , not really knowing what to expect. But we think the show should of beem named WHACKO!Someone please tell me what a video of a naked women pulling a scroll out of her vagina and reading her poetry from it says anything about women and how we have evolved. I feel that this show only ridicules women and truly makes us look like idiots. We obviously did not get IT, and have decided that they were all on some good drugs and that is what they produced when on it.
    Art, I think not.

  • #12.   zeba hasan 02.08.2009

    It was a wonderful experience to watch art exhibition on ‘Feminism’online. I am an artist and a teacher, living in India.
    I am working on a project “Study of Indian Art with special reference to Feminism”.Is it possible to add me to your mailing list via email for any
    upcoming events?
    Thanking you in anticipation
    Dr. (Miss)Zeba Hasan

  • #13.   charles stewart parnell: Totally Wack: What happened to the feminist surge? « xxmuye Blog 02.12.2009

    [...] Remember way back in 2007 when feminism was all hot again? When Martha Rosler’s cacophony of exploited naked babes were – not uncontroversially – used on the cover of the catalogue for WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution? [...]

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