6.30–8.30pm PERSONA publication launch with presentations by Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt. No need to book

PERSONA is the second magazine in a series in response to a series of meetings of female artists entitled "A conversation to know if there is a conversation to be had" held in New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and London in 2010-11. The first journal LABOUR, addressed the question of women's work, and used the lens of the feminist critique of unpaid labour to look at the contemporary condition of the artist. PERSONA as a jumping-off point looks at the condition of self-presentation for the contemporary artist, and in an expansive manner encompasses discussions on embarrassment, refusal, interiority and identification.
 
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3–6pm Shulamith Firestone reading group (with Melissa Gordon, Ciara Phillips and Marina Vishmidt). RSVP to natasha@theshowroom.org. Reading material available here:
http://www.theshowroom.org/programme.html?id=1328%2C1656