Cut Out: Feminist Collage Symposium

Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A and Thames & Hudson publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art.

This symposium will explore key themes of the book: women’s collage practices prior to Modernism’s claim to the form; the materiality of photography in the lives and work of women artists; the use of found or discarded images as gestures of resistance and resilience; and the significance of domestic space in shaping women’s cultural production.

Speakers include Martha Rosler, Linder, Jazz Grant, Liz Siegel, Freya Gowrley, Linder, Tania Sanabria, Jazz Grant, Maya Inès Touam, Sarah Sense, Thato Toeba, Bindi Vora and Renée Mussai.

 Funded by the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project

Programme 

The conference programme is subject to change at the discretion of the organisers.  In the interest of time, speaker biographies will not be presented during the event but are provided in the downloadable schedule.

13:15 – Welcome/Introduction by Fiona Rogers, Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography and author of Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage

13:30 – Montage before Modernism – Liz Siegel and Freya Gowrley, chaired by Marta Weiss

14:30 – Keynote Lecture – Martha Rosler

15:30 – Afternoon tea (Paintings Gallery)

16:00 – Constructing Feminisms – Linder, Tania Sanabria and Jazz Grant, chaired by Taous Dahmani

17:00 – Missing Chapters - Maya Inès Touam, Sarah Sense and Thato Toeba, chaired by Bindi Vora

18:00 – Closing Remarks by Renée Mussai

18:15 – Finish