Back in 2007 in New York at the MoMA there was talk of a future.
The writer, activist, curator Lucy R Lippard took questions after the keynote address. There was mention of action for change; theory and practice moving forward hand in hand because without the backing of art writers and theorists the practicing artists stand alone unsupported to face of inevitable criticism that we expect and indeed thrive on in the pursuit of a fine tuned Fine Arts.
In other recordings of the symposium Anne M Wagner specifically identifies imagination as the crucial solution to a feminist future. Imagination creates images of something we don’t yet have the words for. It calls forth positive change through visual perception. Before change we need to be able to have a vision of the potential outcome to inspire us to innovate and transform.
For further information about the MoMA Symposium in 2007 (protected by licence) including audio an video documentation and a .pdf download of the brochure see MoMA The Feminist Future
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