Otis presents Pioneers of the Feminist Art Movement: Rachel Rosenthal

Rachel Rosenthal, a winner of OBIE, Rockefeller, Getty, NEA and CAA awards among others, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of feminist and ecological performance art. Her revolutionary performance technique integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theatrical experience. She is currently Artistic Director of The Rachel Rosenthal Company's TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theatre Ensemble, and at 84 still teaches her signature brand of improvisational theater at her studio space.

Rachel received a Vesta award from the Woman's Building in 1983 and often contributed to exhibitions and performed at the Woman's Building.

The School of the Art Institute in Chicago awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1999.

In the year 2000, the City of Los Angeles awarded her the title of "Living Cultural Treasure."

http://www.rachelrosenthal.org/rr/home.html

This video is part of an ongoing series of Oral Histories about early feminist artists

The entire interview can be found in the Library at Otis College of Art and Design

Doin' It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman's Building

Ben Maltz Gallery
October 1, 2011 -- January 28, 2012

In conjunction with the Getty Foundation's larger initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 -- 1980, which highlights the Post World War II Los Angeles art scene

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[tadcoughenour]

Thank you Rachel, for telling it like it was. You are an inspiration to women and men alike.

[apekillssnake]

What she is confessing to is that women are jaded or haunted. As a man I have never examined what I do against my sex and I think most other men do not do this either. We just get on with things and are too focused- this is probably why we have done everything first, where women tend to massively want to contextualize things first against their emotional flaws. These really are her problems or womens that they offset in really being a poor-competitor to men! With these facts isn't equality sick!