#YESALLWOMEN "Meltdown" performance art, Los Angeles 2015

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The "Meltdown" performance at the #Yesallwomen art show in Los Angeles, was the the third time the artist Snövit Hedstierna, performed this piece during 2015. The frist and second time was as part of "The bag piece" in Yoko Ono's solo exhibition: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, at MoMA New York. The title relates to the amount of people being raped, abused, assaulted and killed around the world every single day verses the connotation of "not being alone" as something positive. The #Yesallwomen group show was curated by Jessie Askinazi together with Wil Phearson at Artist Muse and hosted by Rose McGowan at the Dilettante Art Gallery in Los Angeles in September 19th, 2015. The show was created as a fundraiser to benefit the East Los Angeles Women's Center. The #YESALLWOMEN art project's mission is to transfer the momentum of the original #YESALLWOMEN online hashtag campaign--which generated 1.4 million tweets in its first four days of use, into a community-oriented experience, where the act of unity can empower us all and benefit those in need. #YesAllWomen is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign in which users share examples or stories of misogyny and violence against women. First used in online conversations about misogyny following the 2014 Isla Vista killings, the hashtag was popular in May 2014, and was created partly in response to the Twitter hashtag #NotAllMen. YesAllWomen reflected a grassroots campaign in which women shared their personal stories about harassment and discrimination. The campaign attempted to raise awareness of sexism that women experience, often from people they know. “When the hashtag first went viral, I just remember sitting at my computer and watching all these stories kind of flood in one by one, millions of them, and it just was this really kind of visceral, overwhelming experience in real time of seeing girls and women across the world talking about these issues that have deeply affected me personally, of course, like it has for most of us,” says Askinazi, who describes the hashtag as a transformative experience. Snövit Hedstierna is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist, performance artist, dj, writer and founder of Pony Sugar Gallery and Pony Sugar Art Society. She is originally Swedish/Peruvian but is based in Montreal and Berlin. She holds a MFA from Concordia University in Canada and is currently a visiting artist at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Her work often begins as an act of resistance with the aim to shed light over the hidden, forgotten, untold and folded by addressing discourses of existential questions, human value, gender and identity based rights. Bodily politics and notions of intimacy, healing, vulnerability, transformation and sexuality are often displayed and examined through the work and within a practice that is multidisciplinary including; sound, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and spatial installations. For more information about the artist please go to: snowwhite.se #YESALLWOMEN art show included works by: Amanda Demme, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Drue Kataoka, Jannike Sommar, Linda Vallejo, and film and music contributions by Rose McGowan, Sarah Sophie Flicker + Maxmilla Lukacs, and Deap Vally Yun Bai, Amanda Charchian, Mira Dancy, Ariana Delawari, Amanda Demme, Zackary Drucker, Alexandra Grant, Snövit Hedstierna, Cole James, Barbara Kruger, Tasya van Ree, Favianna Rodriguez, Xaviera Simmons, Linda Vallejo.