The Political Body Symposium, Introduction and Panel I - What Does It Mean to Be a Radical Woman Artist? A brief introduction to the symposium by Hammer staff, followed by Panel I. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill moderates a discussion with panelists Graciela Carnevale, Karen Lamassonne, Adriano Pedrosa, and Patssi Valdez. The period of 1960-1985 was a time of great experimentation all over the world, and a period where many of the languages of contemporary art, such as conceptual art, video art, and performance, were shaped. In particular, Latina and Latin American women artists in Radical Women defied canonical ideas of art and normative definitions of the body, specifically of the female body. They reinscribed ideas of femininity, sexuality, gender, the political, the social, and the conceptual. This session proposes to explore and discuss the multiple meanings and definitions of radicality as it is found in the works of Radical Women. How can we describe the singular contributions by the Latina and Latin American women artists to contemporary art of this period? What defines their unique radicality? This symposium is convened on the occasion of the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985. In the symposium, scholars, artists, and curators from around the world convene to consider ideas of radicality, feminism, and the emancipated body.