Is feminist art relevant in today's globalized world?
Monica Mayer will share her experiences as a feminist artist over the past thirty years and discuss the social, political and aesthetic issues that have interested different generations of women artists. Monica Mayer is present in Romania by the courtesy of the Embassy of Mexico in Romania, for Perspective 2008 project, curator Olivia Niţiş.
Mónica Mayer (Mexico City, 1954), studied visual arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico City and in 1980 obtained a masters degree in sociology of art at GoddardCollege while participating at the Feminist Studio Workshop in Los Angeles, California.
A major area of Mayer’s work has been performance art.In 1983 she formed Polvo de Gallina Negra, the first feminist art group in Mexico with Maris Bustamante. The group presented performances in the media and different social interventions.Mayer also formed the group Tlacuilas y Retrateras, another feminist art group integrated by the participants in a two year workshop she gave to artists and art historians. Mayer has also performed on her own or with Victor Lerma in different festivals in Mexico and Japan, as well as presenting her work in museums. However, most of her performance pieces are social interventions designed specifically for each place and situation. Since 1989 she has participated in Pinto mi Raya with Victor Lerma, which is an on-going piece on the Mexican art system (www.pintomiraya.com.mx). She is co-director of the Pinto mi Raya archive, which specializes in contemporary Mexican art.
UNAgaleria (10 G-ral Budisteanu, Bucharest)is the exhibiting space of the Bucharest National University of Arts, dedicated to the organisation of events – exhibitions, seminars, workshops, round tables, interdisciplinary projects – that promote the university and foster creativity and innovation in the academic curriculum as well as the other activities of students and professors.
UNAgaleria is run by a curatorial board that proposes, selects and coordinates the activities taking place in this venue. The board members have different backgrounds and specific responsibilities in organising and coordinating gallery events.
The yearly programme of the gallery is launched through semestrial calls for projects; proposals come from students and professors from the university as well as from guest artists and curators.
14 November 17h00
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