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"You are probably wondering why I am up here," artist Faith Wilding said, taking her turn on a panel discussion about "Third Wave Feminisms" Saturday afternoon at CalArts. "When I was invited, I said I didn't want to be on the history panel. I'm tired of being on the history panel. The feminist project is not over. I've been teaching feminism for the last 30 years and our work is still so much at the beginning, in so many ways. I'm on the endless wave, that's all I can say."
But she and other artists and activists had much more to say about the F-word, feminism, at the symposium staged as part of the student-organized feminist project "Exquisite Arts & Everyday Rebellions." Encompassing lectures, film and video screenings, performances, workshops and an art show, the CalArts program is part of a nationwide feminist bonanza related to "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which will open March 23.
At the symposium, two of the three panels -- "Strategies for Contemporary Feminism" and "The Personal Is Political, Revisited" -- featured gurus, such as artist Martha Rosler, CalArts professor Catherine Lord and UCLA professor Mary Kelly. But Wilding was a sort of eminence grise among younger artists on her panel.
"I wanted to...