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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964

Practitioner:
Yoko Ono

Date:
Jan 1 1964

In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching…

Transforming Mental Health and Feminism through Art

Practitioner:
Sravy Attaluri

Date:
Jan 1 1964

She seeks to utilize her feminist art to spread awareness on mental health issues. Sravy is a nomad in her own right, and throughout her experiences in Asia she has noticed that there are stimas surrounding women’s autonomy and how…

Adrian Piper, Mythic Being, 1973 – 1975

Practitioner:
Adrian Piper

Date:
Jan 1 1964

Adrian Piper disguised her identity, changing her race, sex, and social class in order to experiment in public situations and gauge people’s reactions. She investigated how outwardly visible identity markers (like skin color) impacted others’ perceptions of her character. By…

Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975

Practitioner:
Carolee Schneemann

Date:
Jan 1 1964

This print is one of several works documenting a performance Schneemann made at Women Here and Now, an exhibition of paintings accompanied by a series of performances, in East Hampton, New York in August 1975. In front of an audience…

Carolee Schneemann, Up to and including her limits, 1973-76

Practitioner:
Carolee Schneemann

Date:
Jan 1 1964

Carolee Schneemann is largely associated with her performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, in which she boldly addressed feminist and political issues in ways that shocked and engaged viewers. But she has always maintained that she is a painter,…

Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975

Practitioner:
Martha Rosler

Date:
Jan 1 1964

This is a parody of 1970s American daytime television aimed at housewives. In this performance Rosler takes on the role of an apron-clad housewife and parodies the television cooking demonstrations popularized by Julia Child in the 1960s. Standing in a…

Male students walk a mile in red high heels to help stop sexual violence against women

Practitioner:
University of Miami students

Date:
Jan 1 1964

“University of Miami students, mostly male, walked a mile in red high heeled shoes. They are walking a mile in her shoes. The mile long walk was in support of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®, an international men’s march…

“Broccoli” Magazine: Looking at Cannabis Through the Lens of Contemporary Culture

Practitioner:
Broccoli

Date:
Jan 1 1964

Created by and for women, Broccoli is an independent print magazine based in Portland, Oregon. Although intended for cannabis users, Broccoli is an art and lifestyle magazine that bills itself as “playful, informed, eclectic, and thoughtful.” It encourages the discovery…

Chanel Miller Exhibit

Practitioner:
Chanel Miller

Date:
Jan 1 1964

Chanel Miller is a Palo Alto–born artist and writer. She first came into the public eye as “Emily Doe,” the victim of a 2015 Stanford University sexual assault whose impact statement presented in court went viral. Miller relinquished her anonymity…

Untitled

Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Date:
Jan 1 1964

In May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City. They featured a giant close-up black-and-white photograph, without text, of a rumpled bed, pillows still indented from the heads that had rested…