Video Art Night: Gender, Politics, & the Politics of Gender

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Video Art Night: Gender, Politics, & the Politics of Gender

April 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Type:
* Informational
* Performance
* Social

This Event:
* Has LGBTQ content
* May be of interest to the LGBTQ community

Video art is a type of art that developed in the 1970’s alongside other postmodern art forms, such as performance, body, and feminist art. In addition, video art has an unusually high number of women and LGBTQ artists. As such, video art lended itself well to the themes confronted in this exhibition. In choosing the themes for this exhibition, we wanted to focus on two things that have come to the forefront with the divisive 2016 election and increased prominence of social justice: gender, politics, and how both relate to how society functions.

Working within this framework, we put together a history of video art that deals with topics still applicable to the postmodern world. Among the topics are racialized gender, embodied in Lawrence Andrews’ “An I For An I”, masculinity, confronted in “Stanley”, and political resentment, shown in Max Almy’s energetic, sarcastic “Perfect Leader”. The works are ordered to carry the viewer through emotional highs and lows, with more serious works balancing out works with a sarcastic tone. We hope you come to this showcase of 40 years of video art!

Venue

Union South
1308 W Dayton St.
Madson, WI 53715 United States
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(608) 890-3000
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