First, Firsts

Alison Alder and Alex Martinis Roe conceive contemporary feminist practice herstorically “ an important though tricky job, with so little archival context for this work. Their feminist activism seeks to intervene in the lives of people by reaching beyond purely aesthetic concerns to seek other social spaces, and in the process creates a politics of remembrance and alliance, to coin the title of Martinis Roe's project. They address the unstable process of historical meaning, and who tells the story, for repositories of materials and information are never static entities, or even safe.