SITAC Make Your Own History: Histories of Selfinstitutionalization
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Through their own organizational initiatives, women artists and filmmakers (collectives, journals, festivals) achieved prominence throughout the 1970s and 1980s as educators, activists, writers and thinkers. Having created important peer networks and organizations, many selfsustaining, what is the legacy of such alternative independent networks of circulation and their models? How are such multidisciplinary projects received historically? What relationship do they have to aesthetic practice?