Gabrielle de Vietri is an Australian-based artist with a concept-driven, socially-engaged collaborative practice. Her work has taken the form of pedagogical systems, community events, interactive public performances, documents, invented languages, fictional historical insertions, lectures and gardens.

In this lecture, Gabrielle de Vietri disobedience as a creative act through the theft of Picasso’s famous 'Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria in 1986, by the Australian Cultural Terrorists who demanded better State funding for the arts.

Presented by Abercrombie & Kent, ACCA’s 2018 lecture series, 'Uncommon knowledge: artists on their special interests' gives eight artists a microphone and an hour to speak about topics that inspire their art and thinking. Featuring a trans-generational cast of artists, Uncommon Knowledge brings together elements of history, lifestyle, philosophy, sound studies, sexuality, cultural politics and more, to challenge us to think differently about society and the world around us.

https://acca.melbourne/program/uncommon-knowledge-gabrielle-de-vietri-the-stolen-picasso-and-activism-in-art/

Image: Artists’ Committee, Weeping Woman 2017, unauthorised performative intervention at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Courtesy of the artists. Photograph: Tatjana Plitt