Lecture
Thursday 15 December 2022
Guerrilla Girls
The Fine Art of Complaining
A conversation between the Guerrilla Girls and the student-led Lecture Series Committee, that will explore complaining and protest in systematic change. The discussion will look to the works made by the artist-activist collective to fight against the discriminatory bias of the arts. Through the works, we will discuss their use of “guerilla” tactics of surprise exhibitions and posters, as well as their ‘Complaint Department’ - a participatory exchange held at the Tate Modern, London, in 2016. The showcase became a space for publics to complain about art, culture, politics, the environment, or any other issues they cared about. Asking then, how complaining and the fine art of doing so, does not close down difficult conversations, but rather open up ways for new policies and procedures?
About Guerilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair.
