Forerunner: Unfinished Business

As a prelude to ACCA’s major exhibition, 'Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism' (15 Dec 2017 – 25 March 2018), this panel discussion starts the conversation about the historical legacies and new debates within feminism and discuss the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism today. Speakers: Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer whose work explores postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the politics of looking and being looked at. Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria University, and co-curator of Unfinished Business. Emily Floyd is an artist and collaborator with Mary Featherson on the exhibition Round Table. Anne Marsh is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, whose work focuses on performance art, photography, feminist art history and theory. Editing and sound by Eric Demetriou