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Monica Ross

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The Monica Ross Action Group (MRAG) was established in 2013, following her death, to ensure that new audiences benefitted from her legacy. The group undertakes projects with the professed aim "to make visible Monica's invaluable contribution to contemporary practice, expand an understanding of the
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nature and impact of her long-standing radical practice, and demonstrate how her work is crucially relevant to a contemporary reassessment of feminist performance practice and theory".
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from 2001 to 2004. In 2014, the year following her death, a digital archive of Ross's work from the 1970s through 2013 was acquired by the
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Anniversary – an act of memory: solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Anniversary – an act of memory: solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Ross began her career as a feminist artist and organiser. She took an active role in mounting collective initiatives such as
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Sister Seven collective works. Early 1980's anti-nuclear travelling exhibition accompanied by performance and poetry
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Ross began teaching in 1985. Her academic positions included Senior Lecturer on Fine Art at London's
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spanned four decades. She is notable particularly for her contributions to
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by heart. Ross also worked in video, drawing, installation, and text.
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in Geneva on 14 June 2013. On the same day she died in a hospice in
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As of 2015, the Monica Ross Action Group consisted of artists
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Monica Ross: Ethical Actions, a Critical Fine Art Practice
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Monica Ross: Ethical Actions, a Critical Fine Art Practice
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23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
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Feministo: Representations of the Artist as Housewife
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Anniversary — an act of memory: Act 01 Monica Ross"
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Index

Anne Tallentire

Lancashire
Brighton and Hove
University of Reading
monicaross.org
feminist works
performance art
Greenham Common
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Lancashire
postal art
peace camps
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Hove
cancer
Saint Martins School of Art
Universität der Künste
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Newcastle University
British Library
Susan Hiller
Suzanne Treister
Anne Tallentire
Monica Ross: A Symposium
ISBN
9783956792021
"Monica Ross curriculum vitae 2014"
"Feminist Art sharing in the 1970s- a view from the Instagram age"

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