Episode 11

Guerilla Girls

Published on: 21st June, 2021

It's time to celebrate everyone's favourite art world dissidents, The Guerilla Girls!

Kim and Luca discuss the 'conscience of the art world', the anonymous art activist group The Guerilla Girls. Set up in the 1980s, their work has focused on the under-representation of women artists and artists of colour in the art world. Donning gorilla masks and using female artists from history as their pseudonyms, they produce striking, newspaper-style billboards and posters that use facts and statistics to raise awareness about the disparity in representation and as calls to action to address it.

As ever, the conversation is far-reaching but includes...

  • the pros/cons of anonymity and pseudonyms in activism
  • issues of safety surrounding activism
  • Some of the GG's best loved campaigns and visuals
  • The democratisation of art and mass-manufacturing
  • Their newest commission as part of Art Night in the UK, The Male Graze
  • And much more

Check out more of their work here - https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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How Not
A Space for Good Troublemakers
How Not is the brainchild of two gobby Scottish creatives, Kim Macari and Luca Manning, who like to talk about the BIG stuff. We thought you might like to listen...So here we are. Our mission is to always be Good Troublemakers, to think big and to ask - How Not?!

Each episode, we pick something BIG to talk about. Sometimes that's an issue or idea that's been keeping us awake at night (like the right to Protest, The Punk Movement or Universal Basic Income...) and sometimes it's a person who think is bold and brilliant - someone worthy of the title Good Troublemaker (like Keith Haring, Marsha P. Johnson or Dererk Jarman...)
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Kim Macari

Artist-Activist