Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics- Part 5

Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics
With Guest Speaker: Ms. Helena Reckitt

Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the School of Contemporary Arts and the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010

This Public Lecture was held in Vancouver, B.C. at the World Art Theatre, SFU @ Woodward's.

Over the past five decades, feminist artists have created powerful art that both engages in and critiques social relations. Yet this rich body of work is barely acknowledged in recent accounts of relational aesthetics. Helena Reckitt asks why such foundational projects have been largely dismissed. How might the humanist basis of relational aesthetics - in which the unmarked artist is biased towards the male - fuel this critical and curatorial neglect?
Helena Reckitt was Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Her previous positions include Senior Director of Exhibitions and Education at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, Head of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and Associate Commissioning Editor at Routledge publishers. She has curated solo exhibitions with artists including Yael Bartana, Prema Murthy, Paul P, Hew Locke (with Julie Joyce), and Paul Shambroom (with Diane Mullin and Chris Scoates). Her group exhibitions for The Power Plant include Not Quite How I Remember It, on forms of re-enactment and reconstruction, The Power Plant, June - September 2008 and Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning (co-curated with Gregory Burke), May - August, 2007.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Forgotten Relations
• Feminist Artists
• Relational Aesthetics
• SFU
• Institute for the Humanities
• Contemporary Arts
• Department of English
• Helena Reckitt
• Simon Fraser University