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# Andrea Fraser Considers the Role of Artists and Institutions in the Rise of Right-Wing Populism
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/andrea-fraser-considers-the-role-of-artists-and-institutions-in-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism/
- Published: 2018-03-06T22:53:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:45:18.000Z
- Description: Eschewing the divisive polarization that has characterized much contemporary political discourse, Fraser examines the role that left-leaning artists and institutions may have played.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Andrea Fraser, Events, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Andrea Fraser (image courtesy the artist)

Throughout her 30-year career, performance artist [Andrea Fraser](https://www.art.ucla.edu/faculty/fraser.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) has engaged in wide-ranging institutional critique, challenging the very structures that make her work possible. Notable pieces include “[Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk”](http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fraser-museum-highlights-a-gallery-talk-t13715?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1989) in which Fraser played the role of a tour guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offering a satirical and exaggerated version of a docent’s talk; and “[Little Frank and his Carp”](https://www.moca.org/collection/work/little-frank-and-his-carp?ref=hyperallergic.com) (2001), a surreptitious video depicting Fraser erotically rubbing her body against a column in the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Bilbao, in response to an audio guide’s suggestion to touch the building’s “sensual” curves.

This Sunday, the ICA LA will be hosting a lecture given by Fraser titled “[Toward a Reflexive Resistance](https://www.theicala.org/en/events/55-andrea-fraser-toward-a-reflexive-resistance?ref=hyperallergic.com),” which follows from her [recently published essay](http://x-traonline.org/article/artist-writes-no-2-toward-a-reflexive-resistance/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the quarterly art journal X-TRA. Eschewing the divisive polarization that has characterized much contemporary political discourse, Fraser aims to examine the role that left-leaning artists and institutions may have played in contributing to the “[success of right-wing populism](http://x-traonline.org/article/artist-writes-no-2-toward-a-reflexive-resistance/?ref=hyperallergic.com).”

**When:** Sunday, March 11, 3–5pm  
**Where:** Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICALA) (1717 E. 7th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles,)

*More info at* [*ICALA*](https://www.theicala.org/en/events/55-andrea-fraser-toward-a-reflexive-resistance?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*