Dr. Marissa Vigneault
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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I came to it by way of art history and specifically feminist body performance art 1970s.
I've been working on Hannah Wilkie, who's just like classic feminist, amazing artist working 1960s up until her death in the early 1990s.
And I was really fascinated by how she was
citing popular culture.
She was engaged in all these questions of the late 60s and 70s around women's liberation, the beginning of the feminist theory, but also just like lowbrow popular culture.
She's living in New York City, she's living in LA, and she's thinking about
what is the city of spectacle around me?
Which is a time period of, oh, like Times Square and all of the porn theaters and this idea of porno chic and the, called the golden age of pornography.
And it's a city that's just kind of filled with this excess of performative, sexualized female bodies.
And she's responding to that.
So I was working from a pretty historical, art historical perspective.
Then I read Jackie Wilson's book, The Happy Stripper, and she talks about this connection between the feminist performance artists of the 70s and then what becomes neo burlesque and the striptease and that whole history in there.
So I started to get a little bit more into 1970s, the present.
And then when I was at the Met as a senior fellow back in 2019 to 2020, I dove into this history of what are called cigarette and tobacco cards from the late 1800s up through the early 1900s.
And those early, early cards, which were trading cards or like prototypes of the baseball trading cards that were put into like gum packets and stuff, the early versions of them were burlesque performers, vaudeville performers, actresses, and like 95% of them are women, right?
These images of women.
And so they were put onto these little cards and
that were put into loose-leaf tobacco as a kind of, I mean, they had a physical purpose to them, keep everything in place.
But then they also, they used them to print something on it, and then men would trade them.
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