In Mourning and Rage (1977), Suzanne Lacy and others brought attention to the underlying social structures that support violence against women, a factor that had been grossly overlooked in media coverage of crimes of the Hillside Strangler. Ten women dressed in black robes spoke of varying forms of violence against women in order to stress that these, and the more recent crimes, were not random acts of violence, but rather manifestations of society’s acceptance of transgressions against women as commonplace. [Suzanne Lacy]

In Mourning and Rage (1977), Suzanne Lacy and others brought attention to the underlying social structures that support violence against women, a factor that had been grossly overlooked in media coverage of crimes of the Hillside Strangler. Ten women dressed in black robes spoke of varying forms of violence against women in order to stress that these, and the more recent crimes, were not random acts of violence, but rather manifestations of society’s acceptance of transgressions against women as commonplace.

[Suzanne Lacy]

Here’s some Yvonne Rainer to distract you from your abstract, or other thingsss.

Trio A, filmed in 1978.

Untitled (Fingers Crossed). Hannah Wilke, mid 1970’s. 4 gum sculptures on postcard.

Untitled (Fingers Crossed). Hannah Wilke, mid 1970’s.

4 gum sculptures on postcard.

Detail of textile work from Judy Chicago’s Double Jeapordy. Needlework realized by Hellen Eisenberg

Detail of textile work from Judy Chicago’s Double Jeapordy.

Needlework realized by Hellen Eisenberg

Lip Service Cosey Fanni Tutti for the First International Female Artists Art Biennial, 1994.

Lip Service

Cosey Fanni Tutti for the First International Female Artists Art Biennial, 1994.