Queer*fem* magaZINES. Queer and Feminist Publishing in Art and Culture
February 25 - June 4, 2023
March 22, 2023 | 17:00 | THE HERETICS
A film by Joan Braderman (2009)
Filmvorführung | Mönchsberg Auditorium
The exhibition turns the spotlight on periodicals, zines, and comics that provide a platform for feminist and queer perspectives in art and culture. It illuminates not just how vital such publication projects are to the dissemination and visibility of feminist and queer art, but also how publishing as artistic practice can be rethought in queer-feminist terms. The selection of exhibits ranges from periodicals from the second-wave women’s movement, which envisioned a union of art and politics, to alternative forms of self-publishing and zine culture in which the do-it-yourself principle anchors an emancipatory and empowering stance, and on to publication projects that draw cross-connections to questions of migration, postcoloniality, dis/ability, and more.
Publications:
Aquarium, Borrowed Faces, Crip Magazine, Eye Mama Project, Heresies. A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, Homestories. Koreanische Diaspora in Wien, Linda Nochlin Fanzine, LTTR, Migrazine, n.paradoxa. international feminist art journal, Perilla Zine, Polysème, regina, The Pamina Effect, and a collection of queer zines
SITElab 14: May Stevens: Mysteries, Politics and Seas of Words
March 21 – June 9, 2021
The exhibition includes Stevens’ work from 1970 to 2010, exploring her roles as a feminist artist and political activist. She was a founding member of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics and the Guerrilla Girls. Screening of THE HERETICS (2009) is included in the exhibition.
MooreWomenArtists Film Festival
April 1 – 3, 2016
THE HERETICS
A film by Joan Braderman (2009)
Stewart Auditorium
Moore College of Art & Design
PRE-SHOW TALK
Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies,
will introduce the films.
The Museum of Modern Art
(World Premiere)
October 9 - 15, 2009
THE HERETICS reveals the inside story of Heresies, a feminist art collective that was at the epicenter of the 1970s art world in lower Manhattan. Director Joan Braderman, who joined the group in 1971 after moving to New York to become a filmmaker, charts the collective’s story for the first time in a feature-length film, revealing its pivotal role in the “second wave” of the Women’s Movement.
Unlike more traditional documentaries, the film is framed with striking digital motion graphics. Braderman combines intimate interviews with former collective members, archival footage from the 1970s, and documents of the collective—including the journal HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, published from 1977 to 1992—to put Heresies in the context of the larger second-wave movement, which was made up of thousands of women who met in small, private group settings to discuss issues and launch programs and actions relevant to women. The hundreds of Heresies members, now scattered around the globe and working as artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators, and teachers, speak intimately about the extraordinary times they shared as they challenged the terms of gender and power and reimagined the lives of generations to come.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
Television Delivers People
December 12, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Television Delivers People brings together single-channel video works from the 1970s to the present that examine how an individual viewer is shaped by television's structure and content. These videos also suggest the possibility of an active approach to viewing which remains relevant even as the physical experience of viewing changes.
RECENT SHOWS
Queer*fem* magaZINES. Queer and Feminist Publishing in Art and Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, February 25 - June 4, 2023
SITElab 14: May Stevens: Mysteries, Politics and Seas of Words, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, March-June 2021
Personal Popular Narratives, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn,NY, November 15 & 24, 2017.
The Documentary Channel, Dish Network, USA, ongoing national license, LICENSE: March 2012- March 2013
Honors, 2012: Documentary Channel honors 10 Women Filmmakers – Joan Braderman for THE HERETICS in “HER TAKE.”
European/International Television Distribution, Danish Broadcasting Co., LICENSED, 2011 for six years.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Paramount Theater, Boston, Ma., March 2012
Cinéma Féministe Television and Zavod Udarnik TV presents: THE HERETICS for television series in Slovenia, March 8th and 22nd, 2012
Metro Cinema in Alberta, Canada on May 8t h , 2012
The Lower East Side Girls Club screened THE HERETICS as part of their Girls Film Club event on February 24th, 2012
“Douglass College Presents,” New Brunswick, N.J. 2011
Latchis Theater , Brattleboro, Vermont, the longest-running women’s film festival in New England and one of the two oldest in the country devoted to films by and about women. 2011
Flamenco Guitarist, Maria Zemantauski, Presents: THE HERETICS At Hudson Valley Community College's Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium , 2011
The Big Berks: 15th Annual Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, UMass. 2011: Panel on New Films made by women currently about Second Wave Feminism
The Whitney Museum. TV ART Exhibition. JOAN DOES DYNASTY, 2011 (Reviewed New York Times, etc.)
SOME OPENING YEARS’ EXHIBITIONS
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 11 and 14, 2010
Katzen Center for the Arts & National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Oct. 30, 2009
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA, Dec. 2009
Academy of Music, Northampton, MA., Oct. 2009
Vermont International Film/Video Festival, Oct. 2009
Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 2010
Time and Space Theater, Hudson, NY, Dec.2009 and March 2010
Frameline International Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
Smith College, Northampton, MA, Feb 27, 2010
Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ, March 12, 2010
Buffalo Women’s Film Festival, March 4, 2010
Santa Fe International Film Festival, Nov. 2009
Closing Night, San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival, April 2010
Heresies ARCHIVE launched March 2007: www.heresiesfilmproject.org
DIGITAL ARCHIVE of all 27 issues of:
HERESIES; A FEMINIST PUBLICATION ON ART AND POLITICS, (1977-1994)
VIDEO, FILM & INSTALLATIONS MADE BEFORE 2006
PARA NO OLVIDAR; LAS CALLES DE MI HABANA VIEJA (2004), mini-DVD, 6 min, sound, color
With Crescent Diamond and the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana & the Jan Term Crew Hampshire College
Music Courtesy of Sylvio Rodriguez
JOAN BRADERMAN: UMA RETROSPECTIVA DO ARTE VIDEO
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Escuela Das Artes; noviembre 2002, Porto, Portugal; CATAOLOGO DIGITAL
VIDEO BITES; TRIPTYCH FOR THE TURN OF THE CENTURY w/Dana Master (1998), Beta SP, 24 min.
Premiere: PANDEMONIUM, FESTIVAL FOR MOVING IMAGES, London
Pandemonium Audience Award, Oct. 1998
Impakt Festival, The Netherlands, 1998
University of Massachusetts & Hampshire College, Fall, 1998
Harvard University, Carpenter Center, Feb 1999
Amsterdam Public Television, Spring 1999
"WOMEN DIRECT" - Ithaca College, Spring 1999
Boston Women in Film/Video, Spring 2000
LETTER ON A WALL • THE PUBLIC GOES PRIVATE • SPEECH MATTERS
20 foot acrylic wall installation, digital print. in Critical Positions, Joseloff Gallery of American Life, University of Hartford, Feb. 1996
The De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, June 1997
TRIBUTE TO JOAN BRADERMAN Northampton Center for the Arts, November 1996
The show and tribute were featured in the Northampton Film/Video Festival
Participants included:
George Fifield, Curator, VideoSpace and De Cordova Museum; Mary Russo, Prof. of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, Hampshire College; Gene Gort, Assoc. Prof. of Video and Mixed Media, Hartford School of the Arts and Video and Installation Artist; and Sura Levine, Assoc. Prof. of Art History, Hampshire College. Brochure with transcript available.
WGBY TV, SNAPSHOTS – JOAN BRADERMAN Series, Public Television Profile of Ms. Braderman ( 5 Min.) Produced by Dan Hunt, WGBY TV, Springfield, MA airing1994-present
JOAN BRADERMAN; A VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE
1994-95, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. VideoSpace at the De Cordova published a catalogue on her work for this exhibition:
JOAN BRADERMAN: A VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE, by George Fifield (See program catalog HERE.)
MOVING STILLS
A series of 16" x 20" cibachrome video stills created from slides of stills from her work in video and shown to inaugurate the new Video Screening Facility at the De Cordova. De Cordova Anniversary, Spring 2000.
JOAN SEES STARS (1993) 3/4 inch, Betacam SP Master, 60 min. Co-Director: Dana Master, Dir. of Photography: Gene Gort.
Premiere: VIDEO VISIONS, New York Film Festival, Oct. 15,1993 at Lincoln Center
European Premiere: National British Film Theater, London, and Dec. 1993
Chicago Filmmakers, BODIES IN CRISIS, Oct. 1993
Black Maria Film/Video Festival, Juror's Citation Award
The Space Gallery, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston, Jan. 1994
The American Center, Paris
Women in the Director's Chair Festival, Chicago
Moscow Television
Zone Art Center University of Glasgow, Scotland
Independent Mass Media Festival
Videogame, New York Foundation for the Arts, Spring 2000
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival
International House, OUR DINNER WITH JOAN, Philadelphia
Cicada de Vigo International Festival de Video, Vigo, Spain
Atlanta Film/Video Festival Award- Best Dramatic Criticism
NO MORE NICE GIRLS (1989) 3/4 inch, 44 min., color, sound
Premiere: Collective for Living Cinema, April 1989
Winner, First Prize, Daniel Wadsworth National Video Festival, 1990
THE DECADE SHOW, Studio Museum of Harlem, NYC
The Fifth Australian International Video Festival, Nov. 1990
Radcliffe Bunting Institute
Bennington College, Vermont
San Francisco Art Institute
British Film Institute, London
New American Makers, New Works Series, San Francisco
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
DCTV, NYC
I.U.C, Conference on Women, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
The Chicago Art Institute
Hallwalls, Rochester, NY
S.U.N.Y. Purchase
The Brooklyn Museum
University of Wisconsin
Boston Film/Video Foundation
WOW Festival, NYC
2-Day Workshop w/Joan Braderman and Zeinabu Davis - Media Working Group, KY
NEW WORKS, National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles
San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
THIRTY SECOND SPOT RECONSIDERED (1988) 3/4 inch, 11 min., color, sound
Critic’s Choice Award, New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, 1990
Grand Prize, Video Zone, 1989.
Zone Art Center, Springfield Second Prize, Daniel Wadsworth National Video Festival, 1990
Berlin Film Festival
The Fifth Australian International Video Festival, Nov. 1990
New American Makers, San Francisco
THE SHOW RIGHT THING Conference, NYU
Majestic Theater, Boston
Real Artways, Hartford and New Haven
Median Operativ, Berlin
Utica College, NY
Bennington College, VT
Colgate University
S.U.N.Y, Purchase
University of California, Irvine, and San Diego
University of Glasgow, Scotland
The Anti-Censorship Show
London Art Institute, Media School
London College of Printing and Distributive Trades
JOAN DOES DYNASTY (l986) 3/4 inch, 3l min., color, sounds. Conceived, written, produced and performed by Joan Braderman. Co-directed and co-edited with Manuel De Landa.
Premiere: 1987 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland, 1997
American Film Institute, National Video Festival, Los Angeles
"Disarming Genres," Artist Space, NYC, 1990
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia
Cinemama Festival, Montreal
Boston Film/Video Foundation
Australian Video Festival
Cinematrix, Festival of Films by Women Directors Oviedo y Ayunta de Sevilla, Spain
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Hallwalls, Rochester, NY
New American Makers, San Francisco
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
TELL THEM FOR US; MADRE IN NICARAGUA (1985), 3/4", 28 min., sound, color. Co-produced/Edited with Jane Lurie for Madre Video Project. Music by Duo Guardabaranco
Winner, l985 MADRE Achievement Award
Shown at schools, churches, the U.S. House of Representatives
Club Senzala
Port Washington Public Library
University of Massachusetts
Union Video Donnell Library
New York Syracuse University
S.U.N.Y., Purchase, NY
Colgate University School of Visual Arts, and more...
Used widely for organizing in the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean Shown in The Deep Dish International Satellite Show
WAITING FOR THE INVASION - U.S. CITIZENS IN NICARAGUA (1984); 3/4" 28 min., color, sound. Co-Produced with Director, Dee Dee Halleck, Skip Blumberg, Joel Kovel, Shu Lea Cheang, & Karen Ranucci.
Winner-Best Documentary Award, Global Village Documentary Festival, NYC, l984
Shown nationally on "PRESENTE"- WCET, Los Angeles, PBS
Van Dam Theater, NYC
Wexner Center for the Arts
The Whitney Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
NYC Donnell Public Library
Cuban International Film Festival
University of California at San Diego
Bard College
NATALIE DIDN'T DROWN - JOAN BRADERMAN "READS" THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
28 min., color, sound. Produced by Paper Tiger TV. Conceived, written, performed -Joan Braderman. Co-directed and edited with Manuel De Landa
Shown widely on public access and other cable TV stations nationally and internationally in hundreds of schools, churches and community centers, galleries and cable TV stations.