10 a.m. Symposium Introduction
Tomoko Kanamitsu, interim head of public dialogue at SFMOMA and Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts at SFMOMA and co-curator of Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here.
10:20 a.m. Screening: !Women, Art, Revolution (2010)
Screening of the film !Women, Art, Revolution (83 min.), with introduction from the director: artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson. The film will begin at 10:35 a.m.
12–1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30–3 p.m. Panel One: Curating Feminism
Curators discuss recent exhibitions that focus on feminist curatorial practice and its relationship to activism within and beyond the museum walls. Introduction by Dominic Willsdon, director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and co-curator of Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here.
Speakers: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Astria Suparak, Sally Tallant
Moderator: Apsara DiQuinzio
3–3:30 p.m. Break
3:30–5 p.m. Panel Two: Dialogues around Difference
A discussion on the ways in which artists have addressed feminism and its relationship to larger systems of oppression and discrimination based not only on gender, but also race, sexuality, ability, and class in the era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. Introduction by Lucía Sanromán, curator at large, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), and co-curator of Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here.
Speakers: Andreana Clay, Anuradha Vikram, Favianna Rodriguez
Chair and Moderator: Jacqueline Francis