Date/Time
Friday, June 24, 2022
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Categories
Suggested Donation $10, cash or card at the doorCelebrate the sixth iteration of Nasty Women Connecticut’s annual exhibition on Friday, June 24. This exhibition looks to the writing of bell hooks to make sense of feminism shortcomings to further her project of gathering as an essential activity of feminist movement. We design this year’s exhibition as a space for creative forms of gathering and hosting that celebrates openness and inclusivity, but also makes space for our contemporary skepticism to come to the foreground. What is art’s capacity to mobilize feminist movement and positive social change?
Evoking hooks’ text, The Will to Change, Nasty Women Connecticut presents work by artists, designers, poets, curators, performers, community-organizers, cultural producers and thinkers of all backgrounds that wrestles with this question through the illumination of first-person perspectives.
The opening will feature two performances, Monstrous and Terrible to Behold by Heather Sincavage and The Labor of Speech by Julie Graves Krishnaswami. Enjoy music, food, and drinks to celebrate the opening.
Please RSVP to 860.443.2545 ext. 2129 or email us.
Performances
Monstrous and Terrible to Behold, by Heather Sincavage explores the complexities of her body in distress. In reflection of her personal PTSD, autoimmune diseases, cancer, depression, and a hysterectomy, Sincavage puts her body through a new stress through the repetitive actions of eating onions. The performance ties emotional fragility to the uterus and outlines the medical practices throughout history that teach women to fear or feel shame for their bodies.
- About the artist: Heather Sincavage is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is based around performance but also includes drawing, sculpture, and installation. She uses her own experiences with gender-based violence as a case study, analyzing what it is to live with trauma.
The Labor of Speech, written and led by Julie Graves Krishnaswami, is a performance referencing words and phrases selected from the US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings of female Supreme Court nominees and witnesses.
- About the artist: Julie produces artist books, interventions, performances, works on paper, and textile/fiber-based materials. Drawing from feminist perspectives on history and critical theory, taking inspiration from conceptual art practices, Julie uses interdisciplinary research methods to guide her practice. Through interrogating her experiences as a woman, mother, lawyer, academic law librarian, and research professor, she aims to unpack norms and language around work and how it structures physical time, expectations, habits, and routines. Julie holds a BA from Reed College, a JD from CUNY School of Law, an MLIS from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, she is a Lecturer and the Head of Research Instruction at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School.
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