Future Feminist Archive Report

Published by: The Cross Art Projects | 17-Apr-2016
Future Feminist Archive Report makes the project's findings and speculations physically present. The FFA print set and web publication is being collated during the exhibition as reports come in. At the end of the exhibition, the Future Feminist Archive Print Folio will be distributed to the participating archives and institutions. The project references and respects our commitment to feminism as a major art movement, a curatorial method and a force for change. These diverse archives reveal extraordinary women such as Pearl Gambanyi Gibbs, Dolly Potter and artist Vivienne Binns and their cultural and human rights monuments: the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA); the Miners' Women's Auxiliaries (wages and conditions); Binns's Full Flight art caravan and the founding of the NSW regional galleries in the early 1980s; Joan Kerr's National Women's Art Project (1995) and today's infamous craftivists the Knitting Nannas. The struggle continues / La Lucha Continua.
Venue: The Cross Art Projects
Address: 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross 2011
Date: 16 April to 7 May
Time: Hours: 11 to 6 Thursday to Saturday* or by appointment * Saturday close at 5pm
Ticket: Free
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Future Feminist Archive Report makes the project's findings and speculations physically present. The FFA print set and web publication is being collated during the exhibition as reports come in. At the end of the exhibition, the Future Feminist Archive Print Folio will be distributed to the participating archives and institutions.

The project references and respects our commitment to feminism as a major art movement, a curatorial method and a force for change. These diverse archives reveal extraordinary women such as Pearl Gambanyi Gibbs, Dolly Potter and artist Vivienne Binns and their cultural and human rights monuments: the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA); the Miners' Women's Auxiliaries (wages and conditions); Binns's Full Flight art caravan and the founding of the NSW regional galleries in the early 1980s; Joan Kerr's National Women's Art Project (1995) and today's infamous craftivists the Knitting Nannas. The struggle continues / La Lucha Continua.

Artists participating in the exhibition: Alison Alder, Louise Kate Anderson, Mini Graff, Deborah Kelly, Leonie Lane and Jan Davis (Country Women Artists, Northern Rivers Chapter), Fiona MacDonald, Raquel Ormella, Elvis Richardson and Lynette Riley.

Future Feminist Archive

Project Overview
Curator: Jo Holder
Participating Artists/Researchers and Associates, Archives and Institutions:

Alison Alder "“ Wollongong Art Gallery, University of Wollongong Archives

Louise Kate Anderson - The life and work of Pearl Gambanyi Gibbs, Lynette Riley, Dubbo Local Aboriginal Land Council, Big Fag Press

Brown Council "“ Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales Library and Archive, the life and work of Barbara Cleveland

Gillian Fuller "“ the DAAO (Design and Art Australia Online) UNSW Australia

Mini Graff "“ Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong City Library Local History Collection

Deborah Kelly "“ Sydney Trades Hall Collection, Neale Towart archivist

Country Women Artists (Northern Rivers Chapter): Maree Bracker, Jan Davis, Karla Dickens, Jenny Kitchener, Leonie Lane, Shelagh Morgan, Liz Stops "“ Lismore Regional Gallery, Southern Cross University Library Artists' Books and Visual Arts Graduating Students Catalogues Collections Lismore Campus

Fiona MacDonald "“ Vivienne Binns' Full Flight (1981-83), Arts OutWest, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Raquel Ormella "“ the writings of Joan Kerr, Vanessa Berry, the DAAO (Design and Art Australia Online) UNSW Australia

Lynette Riley "“ the life and work of Pearl Gambanyi Gibbs, Macquarie Regional Library Dubbo, Western Plains Cultural Centre Dubbo, National Centre for Cultural Competence The University of Sydney

Project acknowledgements and expressions of thanks appear on the Future Feminist Archive website (forthcoming)

Future Feminist Archive is presented in association with Contemporary Art and Feminism, an independent research platform with links to Sydney College of the Arts; the School of Literature, Art and Media; and the Power Institute; University of Sydney, Sydney.'

Closing Event and Processional "“ Saturday 7 May

2pm

Future Feminist Archive Report Opening / Closing Event
Guest Speaker "“ historian Heather Goodall whose research interests traverse Indigenous histories, environmental issues and intercolonial networks
Location: The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross

1-5pm

Name that artist! with Elvis Richardson, artist and author The Countess Report
Join Elvis Richardson and invited guests and share your feedback and responses to The Countess Report. The Countess Report is a benchmarking project and online resource on gender inequality in the Australian contemporary art sector.
Attach link to The Countess Report
Location: Ideas Platform, Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo Hours: 1pm "“ 5pm, Tuesday 3 "“ Saturday 7 May 2016

4pm

The History of Performance, a participatory performance with Brown Council
Brown Council, the collaborative practice of Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, Kelly Doley and Diana Smith, is creating an evolving archive of performance art, Making History. Examining feminist and alternative research methodologies, the work is both a place and a platform with the life and work of feminist performance artist Barbara Cleveland (1945-81) looming large.
Location: In-Between Space, 20th Biennale of Sydney, 86 George Street Redfern
Hours: Daily 10am "“ 5pm, 18 March "“ 5 June 2016

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