Maria Buszek: talk
7pm Thursday November 10th, 2011
Bas Fisher Invitational
180 NE 39th Street, suite 210
Miami, FL 33137
FREE and open to the public

The BFI presents a talk by Feminist Art Historian Dr. Maria Elena Buszek exploring the histories of and connections between contemporary feminist art and popular music.

How many members of the art community know about the music criticism of feminist artists like Lorraine O’Grady and Mary Harron? Or journalist and Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis? Or the art criticism of musician Kim Gordon? All of whom were writing in the era of punk feminist musicians like Lydia Lunch, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and DISBAND, just to name a few renowned women directly tapped into the alternative music and art scenes of feminism’s second wave. And many of today’s most compelling contemporary feminist figures–from Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna to the LTTR collective to the electro-shock-rocker Peaches–have deep, seamless ties to both the art and music worlds. In this lecture, University of Colorado, Denver art historian Maria Elena Buszek will explore the histories of and connections between contemporary feminist art and popular music, and propose the necessity of the joyful, critical, and insistently embodied approach to culture to be found in the resulting discourse.

Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D. is a scholar, critic, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches courses on Modern and contemporary art.

Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture and Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art; contributions to the anthologies It’s Time for Action (There’s No Option): About Feminism; Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism; and Contemporary Artists; catalogue essays for numerous national and international exhibitions; and articles and criticism in such journals as Art in America, Art Journal, Photography Quarterly, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. She has also been a regular contributor to the popular feminist magazine BUST since 1999. Her current book project explores the ties between contemporary activist art and popular music.

image: portrait of Maria Elena Buszek by Courtney Andrews

The BFI is an artist-run non-profit generously supported in part by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and with the supportof the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
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