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Living Libraries: Feminist histories in the art of Emily Floyd

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‘A lot of progress has been made in recent years, but Emily Floyd’s work reminds us that many of the issues that women faced generations ago still remain today.’
Jane Devery

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Jane-Devery-Feminist-Histories-mixed-v1.mp3
Living Libraries: Feminist histories in the art of Emily Floyd

In 1975, International Women’s Year, the American feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard visited Australia and delivered lectures in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.

Read She persists essay

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Emily FLOYD
The dawn
2014
Emily FLOYD
Solve your personal problems socially
2014
Emily Floyd: The Dawn

Emily Floyd: The Dawn is a survey exhibition of the work of Melbourne based artist Emily Floyd.

Past exhibition
Occupying space with language and text

Exploring ideas of class and the political and aesthetic movement of situationism, Emily Floyd speaks about the inspiration behind her large scale intallation work ‘A strategy to infiltrate the homes of the bourgeoisie’ from 2006.  

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