Copper sulphate solution and aluminium

Performed from the 26th of May-7th June. The archive documents were dissolved throughout the duration of the exhibition and renamed ‘unmade’ 2026 #1,2,3… whilst the floor installation embossed when walked upon.

The archive documents originated from the California Institute of the Arts Feminist Art collection and document early feminist art groups manifestos, lectures, and personal ephemera. As the documents dissolved, fragments of text were gradually revealed until the erased versions of the documents were fully legible. The intention being to re-imagine the documents to exist within their own temporality, away from dominant narratives and homogenous feminist practices that female artists are subjected to. The process is a physical gesture against patriarchal systems by removing, exposing, and critiquing language that enforces the notion of ‘one history’.  What’s left is an attempt to answer the cyclical question of how to work with and against existing systems that determine our portrayal and perception without reinforcing the patriarchy.

Archive documents courtesy of the California Institute of the Arts library and special collections

Kitchen at Mariposa (page 5,6,7/8), Vicky Hodgetts. January 20th, 1970  ‘Unmade’ 2026 #1 

Reprinted notes from second year: Women’s Liberation class, Jen Vikings, 1970 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #5

Everywoman magazine, volume two, number seven, Womanhouse issue front cover (Miss Chicago and the California girls). May 7th, 1971 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #2

Everywoman magazine, volume two, number seven, after consciousness raising, what ?, 1971 ‘Unmade 2026 #4

Everywoman magazine, volume two, number seven, the reading group, 1971  ‘Unmade’ 2026 #3

Everywoman magazine, volume two, number seven, feminist artists and female imagery, 1971 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #6

Everywoman magazine, volume two, number seven, interview with Judy Chicago, 1971 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #7

Anonymous was a Woman, Letters to a young female artist, Deena Metzger, 1974 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #9

West East Coast Tag (W.E.B), an international liaison network of woman artist, June 1974 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #8

The F-word poster, the Feminist Art workshop at CAL ARTS, 1975 ‘Unmade’ 2026 #10