Martha Wilson's Forthcoming Event at The 8th Floor, Featured in The Art Newspaper

Need a crash course in fighting The Man? The 8th Floor in New York is due to host an “activist history teach-in” on 26 April, led by the feminist performance artist Martha Wilson, whose work is in the art space’s feminist group show The Instersectional Self (until 19 May). With the help of artists including Ann Agee and Barbara Zucker, Wilson will look at how performance art has been used as protest from the 1960s to today. Donald Trump will even make an appearance when Wilson performs Martha Does Donald, a ten-minute piece in which she dons an orange wig and a bad suit to mimic the president’s campaigning style. It included an cappella rendition of the 1925 song Tea for Two (with revised lyrics such as “We can raise a family/No scandal’s bad enough to flee”) and ends with the pledge: “I will make America great again… I have already made politics and performance art one and the same. Good luck.”

[image description: performance artist Martha Wilson is dressed in the guise of Trump for her performance, she is standing against a monochrome background of a neoclassical possibly government building]