Pop Filter Hot Pick: Why you should go: A first-of-its-kind exhibition focused on Riot Grrrl culture past and present is opening on Friday, September 20th, at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.
Exploring the lasting legacy and profound impact of the Riot Grrrl movement on artists, activists, authors, and educators working today, Alien She (which takes its name from the title of a Bikini Kill song) features multimedia work by seven contemporary artists, as well as from national archives, collaborative projects and platforms, and regional music scenes based in locales around the globe.
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While I have never heard of Riot Grrl, or any of the artists involved in the exhibit, I have gone to see it. This article makes some of the things there make more sense, particularly the music displays. I was rather wondering about those. I particularly liked the knitted barbed wire fence, as well as the knitted designer bags and the station allowing visitors to knit their own. I still lack an understanding as to what the Riot Grrl movement is, though.
I feel like there are so many exhibits now trying to do an expose on punk and things like Riot Grrl. I think that things like this completely go against what the movements are about. Punk was intentional but it was not meant to be viewed as high art or a some history that you learn about in a museum it was supposed to be rebellion and angst. Punk subverted the mainstream it was not meant to be the mainstream. It also was never meant to be comodofied and sold. I don't think that this exhibit is necessarily doing this but I think that it needs to make sure that it's heart is in the right place and it is accurately depicting punk and that it doesn't entirely subvert it into something that it is not.
The exhibit sounds interesting, and the historical aspect of Riot Girrl movement sounds like it will be a cool way to learn about that part of history. At the same time though, I kind of agree with what ZoeW is saying about this sort of gallery going against the original idea of the cultural movement by making it mainstream. In making an exhibit about about this punk movement, even though they have the honorable intention of educating people about it and sharing it with people who wouldn't have known about it otherwise, they are at the same time violating the movement and going against what it represents. Either way though, I do hope to at some point when I have time go and take a look at the gallery.
YES! I Absolutely love this. I Think the idea of carnegie mellon and punk going together are two completely separate worlds, unless you actually know the school of art then it does make since. The whole trying to make it an experience is a little weird adding the sound scapes, but maybe theyll pull it off and it will all work out! The whole riot Grrl movement is not one that im familier with. How ever i am pretty excited to go and experience it and see all of the art.
YES! I Absolutely love this. I Think the idea of carnegie mellon and punk going together are two completely separate worlds, unless you actually know the school of art then it does make since. The whole trying to make it an experience is a little weird adding the sound scapes, but maybe theyll pull it off and it will all work out! The whole riot Grrl movement is not one that im familier with. How ever i am pretty excited to go and experience it and see all of the art.
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