Your Body is a Battleground
Apr 15–Jun 9, 2016
In partnership with Personal PAC
Marzena Abrahamik, Claire Arctander, Lise Haller Baggesen, Iris Bernblum, Phyllis Bramson, Rashayla Marie Brown, Jon Cates & Janet Lin), Lauren Edwards, Alexandria Eregbu, Hope Esser, Dianna Frid, Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann, Amber Ginsburg, Lyra Hill, Kelly Kaczynski, Julia Klein, Natalie Krick, Kelly Lloyd, Aleksandra Mir, Noël Morical, Jessie Mott, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Betsy Odom, Dan Paz, Claire Pentecost, Julie Potratz, Michelle Pred, Macon Reed, Jennifer Reeder, Carrie Schneider
Your body is a battleground focused on the many ways art and artists have moved the pro-choice and feminist movements forward. Artworks were available for bidding throughout the run of the exhibition at the online auction house Paddle8. A live benefit auction event took place on June 9th, 2016.
Public Programs
Exhibition Dates
Apr 15–Jun 9, 2016
Opening Reception
Apr 15, 2016, 5–8PM
Panel
Apr 28, 2016, 5:30–7PM
Reproductive Rights: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender. Panelists include Camilla Taylor, counsel and national marriage project director for Lambda Legal; Illinois State Senator Toi Hutchinson; and Ramon Gardenhire, Vice President of Policy & Advocacy for AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Discussing the intersections of race, class, and gender in the fight for reproductive rights and how the right-wing is using religion to discriminate widely against women and LGBTQ people. Moderated by Terry Cosgrove, President & CEO of Personal PAC.
Gathering
May 5, 2016, 5:30–8PM
Future Voices Council Speak Up & Speak Out. Meet members of the Future Voices Council and learn how you can get involved in the fight for reproductive rights in Illinois.
Tracers Book Club: Panel
May 18, 2016, 6–8PM
Tracers Book Club is a radical initiative dedicated to social justice and lawlessness that proposes and promotes self-determination as a civil right.
Tracers Book Club: Screening
May 26, 2016, 6–9PM
Warning. A screening of moving image works surveying a history of abortion. As the conversation around abortion in the public sphere comes in and out of focus we are reminded that the argument against a women’s right to choose is a constant crusade. As time unfolds, the debate may side-step or employ new tactics of oppression. What does a history of oppression against women tell us about the future we are fighting for?
Tracers Book Club: Performance
Jun 3, 2016, 5–8PM
Hex. A caldron mixture of digital realities, glitching twang, sexual psycho-drama and magickal justice with new actions by W.I.T.C.H (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), live manipulation from Paula Pinho Martins Nacif + Ariel Zetina and IMP QUEEN (of WITCH HAZEL), crunchy crooning tunes from _ʝ⌡△✕✕✕5̶¥̶N̶_ (pronounced “Jackson”), and hair-raising video mediation from Lyra Hill.
Auction
Jun 9, 2016, 5:30–8PM
The Art and Politics of Choice.
Press
The Columbia Chronicle
DNA Info
Newcity
Windy City Times
Partner
Personal PAC is a nonpartisan political action committee dedicated to protecting and advancing reproductive rights for all women by recruiting, electing, and holding accountable pro-choice candidates to state and local office in Illinois.
Your Body is a Battleground, installation views at Weinberg/Newton Gallery, 2016
Your Body is a Battleground
Apr 15–Jun 9, 2016
In partnership with Personal PAC
Marzena Abrahamik, Claire Arctander, Lise Haller Baggesen, Iris Bernblum, Phyllis Bramson, Rashayla Marie Brown, Jon Cates & Janet Lin), Lauren Edwards, Alexandria Eregbu, Hope Esser, Dianna Frid, Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann, Amber Ginsburg, Lyra Hill, Kelly Kaczynski, Julia Klein, Natalie Krick, Kelly Lloyd, Aleksandra Mir, Noël Morical, Jessie Mott, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Betsy Odom, Dan Paz, Claire Pentecost, Julie Potratz, Michelle Pred, Macon Reed, Jennifer Reeder, Carrie Schneider
Your body is a battleground focused on the many ways art and artists have moved the pro-choice and feminist movements forward. Artworks were available for bidding throughout the run of the exhibition at the online auction house Paddle8. A live benefit auction event took place on June 9th, 2016.
Public Programs
Exhibition Dates
Apr 15–Jun 9, 2016
Opening Reception
Apr 15, 2016, 5–8PM
Panel
Apr 28, 2016, 5:30–7PM
Reproductive Rights: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender. Panelists include Camilla Taylor, counsel and national marriage project director for Lambda Legal; Illinois State Senator Toi Hutchinson; and Ramon Gardenhire, Vice President of Policy & Advocacy for AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Discussing the intersections of race, class, and gender in the fight for reproductive rights and how the right-wing is using religion to discriminate widely against women and LGBTQ people. Moderated by Terry Cosgrove, President & CEO of Personal PAC.
Gathering
May 5, 2016, 5:30–8PM
Future Voices Council Speak Up & Speak Out. Meet members of the Future Voices Council and learn how you can get involved in the fight for reproductive rights in Illinois.
Tracers Book Club: Panel
May 18, 2016, 6–8PM
Tracers Book Club is a radical initiative dedicated to social justice and lawlessness that proposes and promotes self-determination as a civil right.
Tracers Book Club: Screening
May 26, 2016, 6–9PM
Warning. A screening of moving image works surveying a history of abortion. As the conversation around abortion in the public sphere comes in and out of focus we are reminded that the argument against a women’s right to choose is a constant crusade. As time unfolds, the debate may side-step or employ new tactics of oppression. What does a history of oppression against women tell us about the future we are fighting for?
Tracers Book Club: Performance
Jun 3, 2016, 5–8PM
Hex. A caldron mixture of digital realities, glitching twang, sexual psycho-drama and magickal justice with new actions by W.I.T.C.H (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), live manipulation from Paula Pinho Martins Nacif + Ariel Zetina and IMP QUEEN (of WITCH HAZEL), crunchy crooning tunes from _ʝ⌡△✕✕✕5̶¥̶N̶_ (pronounced “Jackson”), and hair-raising video mediation from Lyra Hill.
Auction
Jun 9, 2016, 5:30–8PM
The Art and Politics of Choice.
Press
The Columbia Chronicle
DNA Info
Newcity
Windy City Times
Partner
Personal PAC is a nonpartisan political action committee dedicated to protecting and advancing reproductive rights for all women by recruiting, electing, and holding accountable pro-choice candidates to state and local office in Illinois.
Your Body is a Battleground, installation views at Weinberg/Newton Gallery, 2016