Heresies Rummage Sale and Skills Auction
February 26, 1977Exhibition Description
This sale and auction of services and skills was for the benefit of the Heresies Collective, publishers of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. Entre-acte micro-performances included Carolee Schneeman’s American I Ching Apple Pie and a performance by Theodora Skipitares who stood in front of a projected slide of a mosaic of Empress Theodora from Ravenna while an audiotape played relating an autobiographical incident which occurred in Greece.
Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.