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Nancy Princenthal: Unspeakable Acts (With Johanna Fateman)

Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.

“If we are going to talk about sexual violence, we will have to come to terms with what it is. That is harder than it seems, acts of gendered aggression range from workplace coercion and everyday harassment to vicious and even fatal physical attacks by intimates and strangers.…Tricky to define, sexual offenses are even more difficult to depict.… The pioneering women artists who explored sexual violence in the seventies had a wide-open arena, and plenty to say.” Princenthal writes on the opening page of Unspeakable Acts. On the 2nd Floor, Nancy Princenthal will be discussing her newest book, Unspeakable Acts. Joining Nancy Pricenthal in conversation will be writer and musician Johanna Fateman.

The 1970s were a time of deep divisions and newfound freedoms. A new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice, galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement, and the March on Washington. Fired up by women’s experiences and the climate of revolution, bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues to this day.

Some of them worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called, simply, performance.

In Unspeakable Acts, Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of art and performance, challenging readers to reexamine the relationship between activism and art, and how the lessons of that turbulent era can be applied today.











When: Mon., Oct. 21, 2019 at 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The Strand
828 Broadway
212-473-1452
Price: $15-$34.95
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Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.

“If we are going to talk about sexual violence, we will have to come to terms with what it is. That is harder than it seems, acts of gendered aggression range from workplace coercion and everyday harassment to vicious and even fatal physical attacks by intimates and strangers.…Tricky to define, sexual offenses are even more difficult to depict.… The pioneering women artists who explored sexual violence in the seventies had a wide-open arena, and plenty to say.” Princenthal writes on the opening page of Unspeakable Acts. On the 2nd Floor, Nancy Princenthal will be discussing her newest book, Unspeakable Acts. Joining Nancy Pricenthal in conversation will be writer and musician Johanna Fateman.

The 1970s were a time of deep divisions and newfound freedoms. A new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice, galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement, and the March on Washington. Fired up by women’s experiences and the climate of revolution, bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues to this day.

Some of them worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called, simply, performance.

In Unspeakable Acts, Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of art and performance, challenging readers to reexamine the relationship between activism and art, and how the lessons of that turbulent era can be applied today.

Buy tickets/get more info now