Collective practices
6 December 2023, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
Presenting films from the London Women’s Film Group and Circles distribution, including films by Susan Stein and Lis Rhodes. Susan Stein and members of LWFG will be present to discuss their films and the contexts of production surrounding them.
Affective labour: confronting images of motherhood
31 January 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
Bred and Born (Mary Pat Leece/Joanna Davis, 1983) provides a point of reflection for the video work of Cate Elwes, and recent films by Margaret Salmon and Mary Martins. The artists will be in conversation.
Revisiting Riddles
7 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
A screening of Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, 1976) followed by Griselda Pollock and Laura Mulvey in conversation.
Club des Femmes present: Every liberation struggle brings us nearer to peace
21 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
Club des Femmes set up camp at Tate Britain to learn and think across Greenham’s feminist art practices, histories and liberation struggles. Our programme will include work by Alanna O’Kelly, Sandra Lahire, Sarah Wood and Lin Li among others.
Archival Reflections
28 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
Carole Enahoro’s rarely seen triple-screen film Oyinbo Pepper (1986), using archive footage and photographs from Nigeria and the UK, is presented in dialogue with the films of Onyeka Igwe and Rhea Storr. The artists will be in conversation following the screening.
Pratibha Parmar in Focus
8 March 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
A screening of Parmar’s iconic video works from the 1980s and 1990s, Emergence (1986), A Place of Rage (1991) and Khush (1991), is accompanied by insights from the director, in conversation with the artist Lubaina Himid.
Always in Animation
13 March 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
A screening and conversation with Leeds Animation workshop, reflecting their long- standing commitment as a not-for-profit women-only co-operative, using animation as a tool to address issues central to feminist campaigning, with humour and immediacy.
Women in Revolt!: Radical Acts, Contemporary Resonances conference
21 March 2024, Opening Reception at Chelsea Space
22 and 23 March 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain
Organised by CREAM (the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media at the University of Westminster) this two-day conference explores the live and performance-based arts, sound and moving image practices that were an integral part of feminist creative and campaigning activities of the 1970s and 1980s.
Full details can be found here
Do It Yourself: Women Artist Filmmakers and Punk
24 January 2024, BFI Southbank
The explosive, DIY energies of punk provided a powerful catalyst for change as women artists seized new moving image technologies and pushed back at the prevailing ethos. Christine Binnie, Anne Robinson and Jill Westwood will be in conversation with Rachel Garfield.
For more information on this event, visit the BFI website
The Gold Diggers (Sally Potter, 1983)
8 February 2024. Doors open at 18.00, film starts at 18.30.
Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
As part of the expansive Women in Revolt! exhibition and film programme at Tate Britain, Chelsea Space invites you to a screening of The Gold Diggers, the ground-breaking first feature from director, Sally Potter. The Gold Diggers is a key film of early '80s feminist cinema, made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper (who co-wrote the script with Potter and the artist Rose English). It embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.
To book this event visit the Chelsea Space website
