I saw one of their performance lectures at the Feminist Future Symposium at The Museum of Modern Art earlier this year (video above), and I can tell you it was an electrifying experience to share a moment of their feminist history. What I find is really awesome about this program is that guests will have an opportunity to speak with members of the Guerrilla Girls in person at the reception. Check out all the details on our website.

Rutgers University is running Resisting Images: Women in Film,
Women’s and Gender Studies 2007-2008 Film Series, which explores women’s past and present roles in creating films that challenge and create alternatives to the familiar stories and characters promulgated by the Hollywood studio system. The series is open to the public.

Tracey Moffatt’s “Love,” which was included in Sackler Center’s Global Feminisms show, will be shown on October 22, Monday. If you had missed out on this piece, you should definitely visit Rutgers! The series runs on till March next year so mark your calendar for the schedules that interest you.

[Schedule]
Monday, October 22 2007, 6:30 pm
“Hollywood Harems” (Tania Kamal-Eldin 1999);
“Meeting of Two Queens”
“Encuentro entre dos Reinas” (Cecilia Barraga 1991);
“Love” (Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg 2003);
“Illusions” (Julie Dash 1983)

Monday, November 26 2007, 6:30 pm
“Sisters of the Screen: African Women in the Cinema” (Beti Ellerson, 2002);
plus shorts by African Women Directors: Safi Faye, Selbe: entant d’autres (1982); Agnès Ndibi,/ Fantococà (2001); Maji-da Abdi, From the other side of the river (2001); Fanta Regina; Nacro, Laafi bala (2000)

Tuesday, January 29 2008, 6:30 pm
“Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Film” (Marie Mandy, 2000);
“Novela, Novela” (Liz Miller, 2001)
“Rang de Nila (Color Me Blue)”*

Thursday, January 31, 2008, 4:30 pm
Artist Siona Benjamin collaborates with classical Indian dancers
Ishrat Hoque and Pranita Jain in a performance related to her paintings.
Benjamin, originally from Bombay, was brought up Jewish in
a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India.
This event is held in conjunction with the exhibitions,
“Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture”
and “Passage to Jersey: Women Artists from the South Asian Diaspora in Our Midst.”

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 6:30 pm
“Sexto Sentido” (Puntos de Encuentro 2000);
“Honey Moccasin” (Shelly Niro 1998);
“Welcome to Africville” (Dana Inkster 1999)

Tuesday, March 25 2008, 6:30 pm
“Lover /Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” (Barbara Hammer 2006)

[Directions]
Take Northeast Corridor Ner Jersey Transit from Penn Station and get off at New Brunswick. The films will be screened at Art History 100 on Douglass campus. You can take a EE or F shuttle at the station to get there.

For more information, please visit: >http://ruevents.rutgers.edu/events/displayEvent.html?eventId=41297

Do you still believe there is such a thing as all men’s field? Do you count architecture as one of them? If you do, think again, and there is a colloquium coming up to open your eyes to women in modern architecture. It will be a great chance to broaden your knowledge on prominent women architects and how women have been strive to make a place within the profession.

Moderator: Barry Bergdoll

Speakers: Gwendolyn Wright, Sarah Herda, Toshiko Mori, Karen Stein

Thursday, October 25, 2007. 6:30 pm

The Museum of Modern Art

The Celeste Bartos Theater

40 West 54th St. NYC

To reserve tickets, go to:

http://www.moma.org/calendar/adult_programs.php

then scroll down to Thursday, October 25, 2007, 6:30 p.m., click on Women in Modernism: Making Places in Architecture, then click on Ticketweb and scroll to the Women in Modernism program.

Feminism in the visual arts remains as fiercely contested today as it was thirty-five years ago. Despite recent backlash against feminist concerns and even an atmosphere of anti-feminism among younger scholars, in terms of both artistic representation and criticism, feminism remains highly relevant. The legacy of 2nd generation feminism has been explored in several recent art historical conferences. This symposium seeks to extend this investigation by examining how feminism currently informs a broad range of discourse within the visual arts. We hope to create a view of feminism that acknowledges society’s systematic exclusion of minorities as well as women. This perspective will dispel stereotypical portrayals of feminists while also examining feminism’s relationship to institutional critique, queer theory, and issues of race, class, and gender. These issues are distilled in the subjects of body, space, and performance, which are the three panels that comprise our symposium. We aim both to reaffirm and re-appraise the state of feminism today and its direction for the future. Our title invokes the boat-rocking, bold attitudes of our 2nd generation feminist forbearers, whose spirit informs and inspires this process of new discovery.

<Schedule>

8:30 AM Registration and coffee
8:50 AM Opening Remarks Dr. Joan Marter, Rutgers University
9:00 AM Keynote Address: “Fillies and Nags: Feminism and Art Today”
Dr. Kristine Stiles, Duke University

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM “A Woman’s Place: Female Territory and Feminine Status”
Panelists: Dr. Abby van Slyck, Connecticut College
Dr. Despina Stratigakos, State University of New York, Buffalo
Discussant: Andres Zervigon, Rutgers University

11:45 PM Break for lunch

1:00 PM “On Display: The Role of Performance”
Panelists: Coco Fusco, artist
Dr. Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University
Discussant: Dr. Elin Diamond, Rutgers University

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM “Body: Feminist Self and Non-Self”
Panelists: Dr. Anna Chave, City University of New York
Aviva Rahmani, artist
Discussant: Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University

4:15 PM Closing remarks: Joan Marter

4:45 PM Reception

<Registration>

Registration is required, free and open to all. Pre-registration by October 19 is required to join the speakers and organizers for a catered lunch held on-site, at a cost of $10

Te Register, please send the following information to rufeminist@gmail.com:

Name ________________

Would you like to register for lunch?
Yes __ No__

Payment for the lunch is by check only, which must be received by October 19, 2007. Please send checks to:

The F-Word Symposium
Department of Art History
Rutgers University
Voorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Attn: Olivia Gruber

Checks should be made out to Rutgers University, with “F-Word Lunch” written in the subject/memo line.