Statement by Nicole Fernández Ferrer, director of the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, in the context of the exhibition „Defiant Muses. Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France“.
The Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir was created in 1982 by Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig and Ioana Wieder. The feminist activists, all video practitioners, aimed their cameras at the preservation and creation of audiovisual documents concerning the history of women, their rights, fights and creations.
Closed in 1993 for mostly financial reasons, the center was reborn in 2003 with a new team and more general ambitions, including an educational dimension. It´s primary mission continues its creators’ aims: disseminate, preserve and add to the very rich audio-visual documents, mainly composed of videos involving the history of women, their battles and their creations.
„Defiant Muses. Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France“, 7/4 – 4/9 2022, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
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