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Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

Presented by Contemporary Arts Center and FotoFocus at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH

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Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s

Diana Solís, Self-portrait on Greenview Street, Chicago, IL, ca. 1980-81.

Activism, education, and media production in trans, queer, and feminist movements

Through photographic documentation of activism, education, and media production within trans, queer, and feminist grassroots organizing of the 1970s through the 1990s, Images on which to build reveals the technologies through which influential image cultures were constructed and circulated. The exhibition presents a range of photographic practices to explore the process of learning within alternative schools, workshops, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshow presentations, correspondences, and community-based archive projects. Featured artists and collectives include: Diana SolísJoan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and the Sexual Minorities Archives, among others. The exhibition is co-organized by the Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, where it will travel in the spring of 2023.
Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s is a curated exhibition for the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record.

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