Photographs by Etienne Frossard

We shall not miss it at KAJE considered the life and work of Shulamith Firestone, whose The Dialectic of Sex (1970) proffered revolutionary demands for gender abolition, artificial reproduction, child liberation, and “cybernetic communism.” Exiled from the women’s liberation movement before the book hit the shelves, Firestone’s only other published text, Airless Spaces (1998), fictionalizes her experiences living in and out of mental institutions in New York via involuntary hospitalizations. Through an immersive exhibition that culminated in a live performance, the six-week engagement at KAJE explored the timely promise and problems with Firestone’s earlier anarcho-communist manifesto alongside issues of madness and institutionalization in her extraordinary second book.