Thursday, June 17 - Monday, June 21 at Greater New York, PS1 Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy + Elisabeth Subrin Screened daily at 3pm.   Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, New Report, 2005 (video, 12 mins) Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, New Report Artist Unknown, 2006 (video, 17 mins) Elisabeth Subrin, Shulie, 1997 (Super-8/video, 37 mins) Conversation with Hardy and Subrin following Saturday, June 19 screening. In New Report and New Report Artist Unknown, Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy perform as “Henry Stein-Acker-Hill” and “Henry Irigaray,” newscasters for WKRH, an imagined feminist TV station whose tagline is “PREGNANT w/ INFORMATION.” Parodying 24-hour news channels—imagine NY1 hijacked by Monique Wittig—Greenwood and Hardy tackle issues pertaining to women’s art, on location from an artist’s bedroom, a burning bra protest in downtown Brooklyn, and the “feminist herstory and cultural archives.” For the Greater New York Cinema, Greenwood and Hardy’s tapes are paired with Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie, a shot-for-shot remake of an almost unknown 1967 student documentary of Shulamith Firestone. The original film depicts Firestone as an undergraduate at the Art Insititue of Chicago, years before she became a radical feminist icon and author of the manifesto The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. With actors in the 1990s mimicking the look and feel of the 1960s, Shulie becomes a meditation on historical memory, generational change, documentary, political progress and the nature of time itself, presaging themes explored in Subrin’s installation Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, on view in Greater New York. Though they employ completely different formal strategies, both the New Report series and Shulie grapple in complex and evocative ways with the historical legacy of feminism and what it means to the contemporary political situation. In conjunction with the Greater New York exhibition, MoMA PS1’s basement level Vault will be transformed into a cinema. Curators Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, co-founders of Light Industry, have been invited to program the theater with an ongoing presentation of screenings and related events.

Thursday, June 17 - Monday, June 21 at Greater New York, PS1

Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy + Elisabeth Subrin
Screened daily at 3pm.   Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, New Report, 2005 (video, 12 mins)
Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, New Report Artist Unknown, 2006 (video, 17 mins)
Elisabeth Subrin, Shulie, 1997 (Super-8/video, 37 mins)

 Conversation with Hardy and Subrin following Saturday, June 19 screening.

In New Report and New Report Artist Unknown, Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy perform as “Henry Stein-Acker-Hill” and “Henry Irigaray,” newscasters for WKRH, an imagined feminist TV station whose tagline is “PREGNANT w/ INFORMATION.” Parodying 24-hour news channels—imagine NY1 hijacked by Monique Wittig—Greenwood and Hardy tackle issues pertaining to women’s art, on location from an artist’s bedroom, a burning bra protest in downtown Brooklyn, and the “feminist herstory and cultural archives.” For the Greater New York Cinema, Greenwood and Hardy’s tapes are paired with Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie, a shot-for-shot remake of an almost unknown 1967 student documentary of Shulamith Firestone. The original film depicts Firestone as an undergraduate at the Art Insititue of Chicago, years before she became a radical feminist icon and author of the manifesto The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. With actors in the 1990s mimicking the look and feel of the 1960s, Shulie becomes a meditation on historical memory, generational change, documentary, political progress and the nature of time itself, presaging themes explored in Subrin’s installation Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, on view in Greater New York. Though they employ completely different formal strategies, both the New Report series and Shulie grapple in complex and evocative ways with the historical legacy of feminism and what it means to the contemporary political situation.
In conjunction with the Greater New York exhibition, MoMA PS1’s basement level Vault will be transformed into a cinema. Curators Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, co-founders of Light Industry, have been invited to program the theater with an ongoing presentation of screenings and related events.

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