Parallel to the struggles women in visual art face for recognition, in museums and in their field overall, women in classical music are grossly underrepresented in the fields of conducting and composition—in the concert hall, the opera house, and the recital hall. In conducting especially, women deal with sexism, overt misogyny, and blunt sexual objectification.
This installation, for Art 373: Installation Art, focuses on space. Taking up great physical space, this work comments on the lack of space there is for women conductors and composers and hopes to provoke discussion on the underlying social and cultural reasons for their underrepresentation in these fields.
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ReplyDeleteParallel to the struggles women in visual art face for recognition, in museums and in their field overall, women in classical music are grossly underrepresented in the fields of conducting and composition—in the concert hall, the opera house, and the recital hall. In conducting especially, women deal with sexism, overt misogyny, and blunt sexual objectification.
This installation, for Art 373: Installation Art, focuses on space. Taking up great physical space, this work comments on the lack of space there is for women conductors and composers and hopes to provoke discussion on the underlying social and cultural reasons for their underrepresentation in these fields.