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24 Hour Live Studio Video Feed

Each Brainstormer streamed live video of her studio for the duration of the exhibition.

Real Time - Solo Exhibition

Madlibs and Protest posters

Gallery goers and passersby were invited to play brainstormer designed madlibs that were then sent to 30 galleries in Chelsea that represent 70% men or more. The Guerrilla Girls invited people to join MAN (Male Art Now) to protest the many recent museum exhibitions devoted to feminism.

Get Mad

Brainstormers joined forces with the Guerrilla Girls in this public performance.

Installation Space

May I Please Have a Sip of Your Power?
was a sound installation that addresses injustice and power inequities. In a tone that ranges from the self-effacing to the demanding to the absurd, an ever-polite computer-generated voice sounds a broken record of questions that asks for what should be unquestionable rights.

Sip of Power - Click Image for Sound

Installed in lobby of the LGBT Community Center, NY

Brainstormer Volunteer Surveyors

Scene & Herd was a performance and interactive artwork that engaged museum visitors in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art. In addition to a live performance piece, Brainstorners created an ethical testing survey for the art world, which was conducted throughout the crowd. Answers were projected live on the walls of the museum and participants were given our publication: Scene & Herd.
For video documentation - click on the link below

Scene & Herd

Click on link below to Printed Matter or visit our publications page to see in detail.

Scene & Herd

Brooklyn Museum - Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
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Armory Visitors

On March 11, 2006, Brainstormers confronted visitors to the Armory Show with their performance, How Good Are You? Hundreds of people participated by completing surveys about art world ethics, answering questions about conflicts of interest in the art world and the lack of representation of women in exhibitions. Dressed as scientists in absurd costumes that made the discomfort of ethical dilemmas more inviting, Brainstormers processed surveys and handed out the Brainstormers’ Report Gallery Guide

Brainstormers Gallery Guide

Published in 2006, Click on link below to Printed Matter or visit our publications page to see details.

How Good Are You?

A public performance across from the Armory Fair.

Video Still

Weather Report is a satirical video by Brainstormers reporting on the "weather" of the New York art world. Created in 2006, this online video was broadcast just prior to the street performance - How Good Are You?

Weather Report - Video Still

A satirical video by Brainstormers reporting on the "weather" of the New York art world. Created in 2006, this online video was broadcast just prior to the street performance - How Good Are You?

Flier-front

Brainstormers volunteers passed out fliers to those standing in line with statistical information on gender inequity in the art world.

Metro NY

Point

Point, took place across from the opening of P.S.1's “Greater New York” in March of 2005. Rumors of a gender imbalance in this show, which marketed itself as the most comprehensive survey of emerging New York artists, lead the Brainstormers to begin to research gender in the art world. They found that though women are the majority in MFA programs in the tri-state area, women are far less likely than men to have gallery representation. The performance made the museum's bias visible to the public

March 2005, P.S.1 unveiled its second "Greater New York" exhibition, which marketed itself as the most comprehensive survey of emerging New York artists. Shockingly the show included nearly double the number of male artists than female artists. Will 2010 be Greater Than Last Time?

*Artists - Create a profile on P.S.1's new web-initiative, Studio Visit. Include one (or all) of these graphics in your profile. We encourage you to use one of these images as your profile's thumbnail to increase visibility of the issue.

*Use one of these graphics as your facebook profile and link to brainstormers.

Greater Than Last Time - 2010

Activist Web piece