We Interrupt Your Program

Mills College Art Museum
through March 16, 2008

Organized by Marcia Tanner, Guest Curator

Continuing its commitment to the work of women artists and curators, The Mills College Art Museum presents We Interrupt Your Program: a group exhibition of video and new media works by fourteen emerging and mid-career female artists.

The works in We Interrupt Your Program intervene in, reconfigure, augment, and/or re-contextualize dominant narratives of war, power, science, technology, and gender from what are arguably distinctively female and feminist perspectives. Spanning a range of media and aesthetic strategies, the exhibition includes computer-manipulated video, digital animation, video installation, interactive sculpture, and photography.

All of the artists in We Interrupt . . . respond to contemporary mainstream media—including network television, mass market feature films, instructional science videos, and online communication platforms such as email and chat rooms—interrogating them as restrictive vocabularies and structures that routinely exclude the female voice and point of view. Their work, which often formally refers to art historical precedents like minimalism or landscape painting, as well as popular visual culture, is powerfully expressive, conceptually complex, and relevant to our cultural moment.


February 20th, 7:30pm
Mills College Visiting Artist Samara Halperin in conversation with Anne Walsh and Gail Wight

March 12th, 7:30pm
Lecture by Marisa Olson

All programs are in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building

Viewers interested in this exhibition might also like to visit Small Things End, Great Things Endure at New Langton Arts, which features works by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Maja Bajevic, Andrea Bowers, Zoe Crosher, Eve Fowler, Wynne Greenwood, Anna Maltz, Ali Naschke-Messing, Emily Roysdon, Jen Smith, Jonathan Solo, and Matilde ter Heijne, on-view through March 15, 2008.

[Image from exhibition press release: Shannon Plumb, Olympics, 2005 Single–channel video.]