Exhibition
Curated by Elke Krasny with Aktion Arkiv, Queering Yerevan, radical practices of collective care und Red Min(e)d
The exhibition takes its point of departure from Suzanne Lacy's International Dinner Party. On March 14th 1979, a simultaneous world wide dinner took place on the eve of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern art. The women who hosted the dinners round the globe collectively drafted statements and sent them via telegram to the museum. The location of the dinners were marked by Lacy with a red inverted triangle on a black and white map of the world. Taken together, the women's messages constitute an archive of feminist practice and thought.
The exhibition joins Suzanne Lacy's 1979 art project with four contemporary collectives: Aktion Arkiv, Queering Yerevan, radical practices of collective care and Red Min(e)d. These collectives address the politics of friendship, of sharing, of caring, and of conviviality. They use different approaches to activism, art, and urbanism, and practice new and emerging forms of critical and living feminist and queer feminist archives.