6. December 2003 –1. February
2004
Museum
of Modern Art , Vienna
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Mothers of Invention explored the development
of Performance Art in the context
of feminist and other emancipatory ideas from the 1970s until today.
The
exhibition focused on influential art and activist spaces as well as
groups and producer networks with feminist motivations. Politically
oriented interest groups
engaging with issues of feminism, gay and lesbian politics or sexual
liberation,
clubs and discotheques – which have traditionally always also
been a field of experimentation for definitions of gender – as
well as spaces for experimental art
and theater were important models informing the development of Performance
Art. Special emphasis is placed on actions dealing with questions of
feminism, queerness or gender, while privileging those actions which
were hardly known or ignored by official art history for various reasons
in spite of their influence within the “scene.” The project
considers itself to be a kind of “growing archive” in which
links and mutual influences among artists – leading to a snowballing
system of recom-mendations and pointers – also had a share in
the decision-making process.
The exhibition juxtaposed historical influences with contemporary positions
and contributed to a re-assessment of the (historical) achievements,
especially those of women, as they shaped performance strategies which
continue to be visible today.
with works by : A.Mo.K
– Ariadne - >a room of one’s own< - Renate Bertlmann
- Christa Biedermann
Canon Club - Clever Gretel - SV Damenkraft - Rony Daopoulos und Annabella
Miscuglio
De Appel - Die Tödliche Doris - Mary Beth Edelson - Valie Export
MAGNA Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität, 1975 - Franklin Furnace
- Penelope Georgiou – Happy - IntAkt
International Feminist Collaborative Group - Rudi Katzer - KessyLuxOrganisation-Suzanne
Lacy - Danica Minic - Minimal Club - Ulrike Müller re:tracing feminist
art program
Wolfgang Müller - Vibeke Pedersen - Rosa Lila Villa - Salon Lady
Chutney – Supersalons – TeamPingPong - Terre Thaemlitz -
Inga Svala Thorsdottir –
Annette Wehrmann - Martha Wilson - Woman’s Building - Women down
the pub -
Diagramme : Linda Bilda, supapaula |
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