With the activism project in this class I thought about the pieces that were in my Feminism in Action class. One of the works that always had stood out to me was Womanhouse partly because of the process that they went through prior to the manual labor that went into renovating a run down house. In the end result they dedicated each room for an issue that they thought was important to be talked about. I found it kind of suprising that after so many years that no one has replicated the same idea of Womanhouse. Not sure if its an issue of originality in the art, but I think with its main purpose it would be an interesting idea to actually recreate it. Since it is an interactive environment I feel that it might make for a good place to maybe start conversations with people and what they think about the issues (although a bigger issue than that might be getting them there in the first place).
more information on womanhouse
and this is one of their performative pieces that they had at Womanhouse ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x07AtDl69F0
This is a really cool and interesting activism project. Since this was made in the 70's a recreation of this would be great to show how things have changed but they are still kind of the same.
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