(Black Hen's Dust)
Mónica Mayer and Maris Bustamante founded the feminist art group Polvo de Gallina Negra in 1983. It was the first group of its kind in Mexico. The group worked for 10 years, doing performances for live audiences and for the media.
On life and art as a Feminist is a longer text on feminist art in Mexico written by Monica Mayer.
|
|
|
|
Maris Bustamante and Mónica Mayer
|
Documentation of one of the aspects of the project ¡MADRES! (MOTHERS!) which, which consisted in seven mail art pieces on motherhood.
|
|
|
Maris Bustamante and Mónica Mayer during a performance during a demonstration on voluntary motherhood during February 1991.
|
During a performance of the same project, but this time before a live audience at the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City.
|
|
|
| During a performance of the ¡MADRES! project, during a transmission of the program Nuestro Mundo with Guillermo Ochoa. It was seen by 200,000 million people. |
|
|
|
Performance Tres madres para un Desmadre, made in 1990 during the series of street performances Madre sólo hay una organized by La Sociedad de Espectáculos at the Colonia Narvarte.
|
|
Video from ¡MADRES! performance
|
