Artist Mary Kelly presents “3 Non-Strategic Observations for a Few Artists Whose Work is in Some Way Informed by Feminism.” Kelly spoke about the relevance of theory, the role of institutions, and the connectedness of generations. She discussed the debates among feminist artists in the 1980s about the relative roles of theory and lived experience. She also described the impossible desire to historicize the diversity of feminist art production, suggesting that the movement’s discontinuity is also its continuing source of relevance and power.

Mary Kelly spoke on the panel “Strategies for Contemporary Feminism” at Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium, a student-organized project that took place at California Institute of the Arts on March 10, 2007.

http://exquisiteacts.org/symposium/strategies-for-contemporary-feminism.html