Just A Girl: Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch

An evening of two performances by Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch at Microscope gallery.

7pm-8:30pm
… $6
4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY. Myrtle/Broadway JMZ or Morgan or Jefferson L


Cause A Flat Chested Woman Might As Well Be A Man

As an extension of her recent founding of The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, Angela Washko will bring audience members into the incredibly misogynistic realms within WoW. There she will invite them to evaluate player responses to her questions regarding feminism.

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Growing up, Ann Hirsch was a late bloomer. It has taken longer than normal, but she has finally developed her womanly body. She will be doing a brand new performance where she grapples with her new body, including appropriating a famous William Wegman video performance and imitating bodily functions as she continues to investigate what it means to be a female performance artist in the age of the internet.


Angela Washko is a visual artist and independent curator based in New York City. Exploring the territories of advertising psychology and perceptions of women created in the media, her works are a call-to-action, demanding a drastic attitude change in our collective consciousness. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including most recently at The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spanien 19c in Denmark, Grace Exhibition Space in NYC, LUMEN in NYC, Garage Gallery in San Diego, Carnival of e-Creativity in New Dehli, Videopolis in Barcelona, and The Budapest Short Film Festival. Washko has recently been granted the Terminal Award from Austin Peay State University and has completed artist residencies at Flux Factory in NYC, Gullkistan in Iceland, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been written about on Rhizome, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Time Out NY, and the Huffington Post.



Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist engaging with the contemporary portrayal of women in media. She often acts as an amateur social scientist, inserting herself into popular culture and reporting back her findings in the form of art works. Hirsch has exhibited incarnations of her projects nationally and internationally, including video installations at the Video and Digital Arts Festival in Girona, Spain, SKOL in Montreal, Central Utah Artist's Space and has given performances at Vogt gallery in Chelsea, Flux Factory in Queens, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NOMA gallery in San Francisco, Sarah Lawrence College and more. She has completed residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Yaddo. Her work has been written about by The New York Times, Rhizome and Artinfo.com. You can read more about her shenanigans at TheRealAnnHirsch.com.