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feminist art

Womanhouse “Waiting” Performance’s Spook

The 1970s feminist movement piece of art, called “Womanhouse,” featured dozens of famous female artists of the time. One of the most striking aspects of the exhibition was the performance of “Waiting” by Faith Wilding. The performance is eerie, and conveys the monotonous, repetitive cycle of a woman’s life in which she is constantly waiting …

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Womanhouse

Womanhouse was a socially engaged collaborative art project run by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro at the California Institute of the Arts that began in 1971.  The idea was conceived of by Paula Harper, who joined the faculty of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, and grew to become an all encompassing project that relied …

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