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This November, Spectacle is pleased to present a selection of films and a groundbreaking video made by and with Susan Kleckner, a pioneering filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, activist, and lifelong New Yorker who helped to define the Feminist Arts Movement.
Across disciplines, Kleckner worked individually and within groups to make art to empower the voices of women and minorities and as a tool for social progress. She was essential in uniting Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) with Feminists in the Arts in 1969, and in 1970 she became a founder of the Women’s Interart Center, a trailblazing alternative space that provided exhibition and training for women in a wide range of media arts. Over the next decade, she experienced her most fruitful period of cinematic production, making vital contributions to collective work alongside a handful of self-directed projects, which span documentary, fiction, experimental, and hybrid modes. Though this series just scratches the surface of her prolific output as a visual artist, it highlights the key moving image-based work from this stretch, shown together for the very first time.
Join us on Sunday, November 3rd for a special collection of Kleckner’s short films followed by ANOTHER LOOK (AT THE MIAMI CONVENTION), a timely, yet forgotten artifact of feminist media activism that intervenes into the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The evening will conclude with a Q&A with William Kaizen, author of Against Immediacy: Video Art and Media Populism.