Guerrilla Girls Engage the Public
Clip: Season 11 Episode 2 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Guerrilla Girls engage the public in their battle against discrimination in the art world.
Clad in all-black, their faces obscured by oversized gorilla masks, “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz” take to the streets as Guerrilla Girls to engage the public in their decades-long battle against discrimination in the art world. Animated sequences and archival footage illustrate the artist-activist collective’s fight for equality through posters with bold designs and other creative means.
Guerrilla Girls Engage the Public
Clip: Season 11 Episode 2 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Clad in all-black, their faces obscured by oversized gorilla masks, “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz” take to the streets as Guerrilla Girls to engage the public in their decades-long battle against discrimination in the art world. Animated sequences and archival footage illustrate the artist-activist collective’s fight for equality through posters with bold designs and other creative means.
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- ["Frida"] Do you have any ideas what museums could be?
- Decolonizing museums.
Like, not having stolen things.
- If your art is for the public, then the public should have a right to express their opinions and views.
- As a young artist, like, sometimes I see things and, like, get so frustrated and feel like nothing has changed.
♪♪ - ["Frida" VO] From the very beginning, we have been fighting against sexism, racism, and the death hold that wealthy people and wealthy institutions have on art and culture.
- 40 million dollars, 1-5-0-6.
- The Guerrilla Girls will complain about anything that pisses them off, and they always do it in an unexpected way.
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