Cut Out: A Feminist History Of The Photo Collage

Join artist Justine Kurland and curator Fiona Rogers for a dynamic, semi-performative conversation exploring the radical intersections of photography, collage, and feminist practice. Anchored in Kurland's provocative project SCUMB Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men's Books) and Rogers' new book Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage, the event examines how women have long used cutting, splicing, and reassembling as acts of resistance. Together, Kurland and Rogers will unpack the political charge of femmage-a reclamation of craft traditions historically dismissed as "women's work"-and consider how these methods persist as resilient strategies within feminist and socially engaged art. As they speak, both will create live cut-paper interventions, offering an embodied demonstration of the gestures, ruptures, and reconfigurations at the heart of their work.