CureThis featured in Chicago exhibit on feminist health movements

by: los anjalis

Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM PDT

Cure This is honored to be featured in the current Chicago exhibit:

EveryBody!: Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009

I Space Gallery 230 West Superior Street Second Floor Chicago, IL 60654 | 312.587.9976 | Tu-Sa 11am-5pm

The exhibit "presents work by artists and activists representing historical and visual exchanges around feminist health movements". Take a look at the website for the event, including information and links to the others featured in the exhibit (zines, artwork, performance, video).  The blog Art Talk Chicago also has a piece with photos from the exhibit.  We are grateful to Bonnie Fortune, the exhibit curator, for reaching out to us and including CureThis in the exhibit.  Check it out if you're in or near Chicago.  And take a look at the websites and artwork of various artists, performers, and other multimedia contributors to the event (more below).

By combining historical documents from the Women’s Health Movement (WHM) with presentations and performances by artists and activists working towards health care justice in the present day, Every Body! explores how feelings, theories, and actions are shaped into the creation of a place where all bodies are celebrated and health care is a human right. The exhibition begins with the visual culture of the WHM of the late 1960s-70s through posters, ephemera, and literature donated from individuals, groups, and institutions involved in the movement including the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective and the Federation of Women’s Health Centers. The work of participating artists reflects this movement and its evolution with creative responses to and representations of the issues surrounding the health needs of women, men, and transgendered people. Every Body! is an ongoing conversation, taken up and shared over many years.

 

The exhibit includes original work from the following artists and contributors (alphabetical order):

Heather Ault, CureThis!, Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective, Christa Donner, Suzann Gage, Terri Kapsalis, Suzanne Lacy, Madsen Minax, the Pink Bloque, Favianna Rodriguez, Dewayne Slightweight, Meredith Stern, subRosa, Laura Szumowski, Video Data Bank, Sara Welch, Women on Waves, and Faith Wilding.

Curator: Bonnie Fortune

Printed Matter

The exhibit features a zine library focusing on Riot Grrl zines, in addition to other health related publications and posters from the following sources:

• • Barnard Zine Library

  • Chicago Women's Graphics Collective Archive

  • Docs Populi Poster Archive

  • Duke University Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

  • Just Seeds

  • Suzanne Lacy's "Rape Is..." offset booklet on loan from the collection of Sharon Irish.

  • Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Re-make the World

  • Microcosm Publishing

  • Temporary Services: Temporary Conversations : A new interview with artist/activist Suzann Gage, illustrator for the self-help book, A New View of a Woman's Body.