GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand

Lecture: Monday, July 25
In collaboration with Martha Wilson and Two Girls Working

In 1985, a band of feminist artists founded the Guerrilla Girls in the wake of Kynaston McShine's remark that any artist who wasn't in his International Survey show at the Museum of Modern Art should "rethink HIS career." Dubbing themselves "The Conscience of the Artworld," they began making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. They assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when they appeared in public to conceal their true identity. Toward the end of the 20th century, the Guerrilla Girls sought out new frontiers, forming three wings to accommodate their broadening interests: Guerrilla Girls, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand, and Guerrilla Girls On Tour. GGBB is the interactive activist wing of the Guerrilla Girls, utilizing the potential of new media to increase activism and involvement.