Expanding the Study of Performance in Women Artists' Archives

Interrogating the historiography of feminist performance art

Black and white photograph of female figure draped in white fabric with a painted face and feathers on head, holding a tall board attached to a fan.

Theater portrait with fan, ca. 1963–1966. Rachel Rosenthal papers, Getty Research Institute, 2019.A.70

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Goal

This project expands the historiography of feminist performance art by identifying gaps in the Getty Research Institute’s collection and recentering the work of understudied women artists in the field of performance. Drawing on materials from outside the US as well as performance traditions of African American, Asian American, and Latina artists, the project examines the relationship between feminist performance art and its archives as well as the degree to which feminist ideas have been adopted, adapted, or rejected in different contexts.

Current & Past Team

  • Mya Chau
  • Jessi DiTillio
  • Samantha Gregg
  • Luana Fortes
  • Simone Fujita
  • Thisbe Gensler
  • Zanna Gilbert
  • Alex Jones
  • Kristin Juarez
  • Glenn Phillips
  • Anne Rana
  • Daniela Ruano Orantes
  • Megan Sallabedra

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