BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9020@royaltonradio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T183000 DTSTAMP:20261112T214220Z URL:https://www.royaltonradio.org/events/i-dream-therefore-i-am-women-arti sts-in-surrealism-at-ava-gallery-in-lebanon/ SUMMARY:I Dream Therefore I Am: Women Artists in Surrealism at Ava Gallery in Lebanon! DESCRIPTION:I Dream Therefore I Am: Women Artists in Surrealism\nNov 13\n\n \nKate Conley\, Guest Speaker\n\nI Dream Therefore I Am | Women Artists in Surrealism\n\n \;\n\nFriday\, November 13\, 5:30-6:30 PM\n\nSurrealis m began with friends sitting in the Paris apartment of André Breton in 19 22 and experimenting with putting themselves into self-induced trances in an attempt to access their inner beings through a kind of Freudian automat ism. Two years later\, Breton published the “Manifesto of Surrealism” in which the surrealists jointly declared their wish to integrate dreamlif e and the unconscious into our understanding of what it means to be human\ , to adapt the humanist Cartesian formula “I think therefore I am” int o a new version: “I dream therefore I am.” Only men signed the “Mani festo\,” but there were always women in the room\; women were always par t of the surrealist conversation. In a movement founded in friendship\, wo men found their place and by the 1930s\, women artists and writers were ex hibiting and publishing with their male partners and friends. This talk lo oks at a series of women artists linked to the surrealist movement from th e 1930s to the present day\, all of whom sought to define what surrealism was for themselves and\, in many cases\, what surrealist women looked like and sounded like by providing personalized answers to the dreamy portraya ls of women found in the poetry and paintings by men. Leonora Carrington\, Dorothea Tanning\, Léonor Fini\, Remedios Varo\, Claude Cahun\, Jacqueli ne Lamba\, Lee Miller\, Kay Sage\, Joyce Mansour\, Suzanne Césaire\, Frid a Kahlo\, and Meret Oppenheim all defined what it meant to be a woman in s urrealism through their work. As they become increasingly recognized today \, more contemporary artists are continuing to advance the legacy of surre alism\, including Penny Slinger\, Sam Ainsley\, Lilia Ziamou\, Susanna Wal d\, and Breton’s daughter Aube Elléouët.\n\n \;\n\nBiography | Kat e Conley is Chancellor Professor\, Emerita\, of French and Francophone Stu dies at William &\; Mary and Edward Tuck Professor\, Emerita\, of Frenc h and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth. She is the author of Surrealist Ghostliness (Nebraska\, 2013)\, Robert Desnos\, Surrealism\, and the Marv elous in Everyday Life (Nebraska\, 2003)\, and Automatic Woman: The Repres entation of Woman in Surrealism (Nebraska\, 1996) and editor and co-editor of books and special issues of journals on women in surrealism\, Robert D esnos\, and surrealist collecting. She published “From the Studio to the Field: Breton’s ‘Hopi Notebook’” along with her translation of An dré Breton’s “Hopi Notebook” in the Journal of Surrealism and the A mericas in 2023. Her current book project is on “Mapping the Surrealist Collection.” She is co-editor of the International Journal of Surrealism (University of Minnesota Press\, 2023-).\n\n\nShow more\nMain Gallery- AV A Gallery and Art Center\n\nGet Tickets\n$0\n LOCATION:AVA Gallery and Arts Center\, Downtown Lebanon\, Lebanon\, NH\, Un ited States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Downtown Lebanon\, Lebanon\ , NH\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=AVA Gallery and Arts Cente r:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR