Final Wave of AGITPROP! to Open at Brooklyn Museum This April

The fully realized AGITPROP! exhibition opens on April 6 at Brooklyn Museum with the addition of fifteen contemporary artists and collectives, nominated by the exhibition's second round of participants.

Presented by the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the third and final installation ofAGITPROP!! solidifies the exhibition's mission to explore the legacy and continued power of politically engaged art.

The show will be on view through August 7 with a dynamic and thought-provoking installation featuring a full range of material, including photography and film, prints and banners, street actions and songs, and TV shows, social media, and performances.

Third wave artists include Andrea Bowers (nominated by Nancy Buchanan), Ato Malinda (nominated by Jelili Atiku), Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (nominated by Laurie Jo Reynolds), Combat Papers (nominated by Interference Archive), Enmedio (nominated by Not An Alternative), Faith47 (nominated by Lady Pink), Ivan Cash and Andy Dao (nominated by Andrew Tider and Jeff Greenspan), Kushboo Gulati (nominated by Thenmozhi Soundarajan), Manuela Ribadeneira (nominated by Luis Camnitzer), Rena Rädle and Vladan Jeremic (nominated by Marina Naprushkina), Pussy Riot (nominated by Amnesty International), Studio Rev (nominated by Jenny Polak), Visual AIDS (nominated by L. J. Roberts), The Illuminator (nominated by Ultra-red), and Weird Allan Kaprow (nominated by Shani Peters).

The term agitprop emerged from the Russian Revolution almost a hundred years ago, combining the words agitation and propaganda to describe art practices intended to incite social change. Connecting current creative practices with strategies from the early twentieth century, these projects show artists responding to the pressing questions of their day and seeking to motivate broad, diverse audiences.

AGITPROP!! is evolving in three waves: the final round of artists was selected by the second round of participants, who were selected by the first round. The exhibition opened on December 11 with five case studies in early agitprop and twenty contemporary art projects selected by the Sackler Center staff. In total, more than fifty contemporary fusions of art and political action, involving hundreds of contributors, are exhibited.

AGITPROP!! is organized by the staff of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Curator and Stephanie Weissberg, Curatorial Assistant; and with Saisha Grayson, former Assistant Curator and Jess Wilcox, former Programs Manager.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Embrey Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the FUNd, and the Helene Zucker Seeman Memorial Exhibition Fund.

Pictured: Pussy Riot (Russian, founded 2011). Like a Red Prison, 2013. Video still from Like a Red Prison, 3 minutes, 43 seconds. © Pussy Riot. Courtesy of the artists.