Shouting Mortality as I Drown: The Intersection of Anne Bean’s performances with Punk and Feminist Practice in the 1970s

Paper on the artist Anne Bean, discussing her work as part of the experimental performance art group, Moody and the Menstruators/The Moodies (1971), The Moodies emerged from more open, transgressive spaces for women that existed in the UK, before and alongside the advent of punk and feminism. The paper explores Anne’s collaborative projects, and looks at themes of transgression in her art that have been inspired by living and working collaboratively.