Art Talk: Anne O’Hehir and Shaune Lakin on 1970s video art
Performance in Focus
Lynda Benglis, Female sensibility, 1973, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1983
Duration: 45 minutes including Q&A
Join our photography curators Shaune Lakin and Anne O’Hehir for a floor talk focused on performance within the 1970s video art of Cuban-American artist, Ana Mendieta and American artist, Lynda Benglis.
Focusing on Mendieta’s, Blood sign (1974) and Lynda Benglis’s Female sensibility (1973) currently on display as part of the exhibition, Deep Inside My Heart, the talk will explore how Mendieta and Benglis used performance and their own bodies to assert their politics, gender and sexuality.
Deep Inside My Heart is on display from 25 Nov 2023 – 19 May 2024.
Art Talk is a free weekly program. Hear from artists, curators and experts on the works in our collection and exhibition program. Art Talks in February focus on performance.
This program is wheelchair accessible and four assistive listening devices will be available for attendees who are hard of hearing. Please email access@nga.gov.au for more information.
