As part of the Complex Social Change series, Josephine Mills will curate several exhibitions, performances, and video programs. The projects will be presented in the UofL Art Gallery’s main gallery and satellite spaces (the Helen Christou Gallery and Project Channel) as well as in public-sites around campus.
The exhibitions and video programs will focus on topics that involve successful and still on-going strategies for making social change. These include the key role that visual artists played in developing new activist approaches as part of the response to HIV/AIDs in the 1980s; attention to new definitions of gay, lesbian, and queer identity from the 1980s onward as well as the overlap between LGBT and AIDs activism; recent feminist investigations of identity politics; and broader work by artists to transform activist approaches while also recording and commenting on successful moments of social change.
EXHIBITING - PROJECTS
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We Can’t Compete — A Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) Satellite Project
We conclude the first phase of the Complex Social Change series with a project from the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG). Their stubborn, playful, inventive focus on contemporary feminist issues and gender identity could not be...
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Canadian Idol No More
Performed by artists Lori Blondeau and Adrian Stimson Racism is embedded in our language and assumptions, part of what we are taught in school, at home, and on the job, and integral to pop culture and advertising. It i...
EXHIBITING - CASE STUDIES
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The Food Series
The Complex Social Change research program largely arose from a project that the six lead researchers had previously worked together on called, the Food series (Sept. – Dec, 2011). Through a Liberal Education course, thr...