Connie Anthes

Untitled (Dissent/Descent) is about the failure of protest and activist politics to generate social change. I have been painstakingly reproducing North American suffragette banners and objects that invert the messages of hope they once carried, and will temporarily surrender my own agency so that an Other might perform them. This is not a strident reclamation of ‘women’s work’, I just needed time to think.

Untitled (Dissent/Descent) is about the failure of protest and activist politics to generate social change. I have been painstakingly reproducing North American suffragette banners and objects that invert the messages of hope they once carried, and will temporarily surrender my own agency so that an Other might perform them. This is not a strident reclamation of ‘women’s work’, I just needed time to think. This work is part of the Cementa Initiative, ‘Correspondence of Imaginary Places’ For a full report visit the blog here