The YES! Association projects work to create favourable conditions for art workers whose practices contribute to the dismantling of structures of patriarchy, racism, and capitalism. In practice this means working with institutions to make change on structural levels; in concept this means playing with performance, fiction, and language to challenge institutions and provoke the change we want. The YES! Association is based in NY and Stockholm, and collaborators include Åsa Elzén, Johanna Gustavsson, Kajsa Dahlberg, Henrik Andersson, Naiti Del Sante, and Hong-An Truong.
Recent events include:
(Dis)Agreements: the utility, effectiveness,
and problematics of categories
Presented by the YES! Association at making ourselves visible: a day-long project in feminist space-making
Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday May 22, 2010
Making ourselves visible is an interactive artwork that becomes a physical Venn Diagram of contemporary feminist practices as visitors register their own politics throughout the space. Visitors are encouraged to collaboratively map the topography of contemporary feminisms by representing their positions and practices across a number of open-ended platforms: From casting a ballot in the REFERENDUM, to re-imagining the feminist lexicon by adding to, editing and excising the "dictionary of temporary approximations", to swapping their feminist books in book swap the constantly evolving collective library, to posting copies their own feminist artworks in the Sackler Center’s one-day open call pop-up exhibition duplicates. Organized by Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/3250
http://www.foreningenja.org