1st Edition

Curating as Feminist Organizing

Edited By Elke Krasny, Lara Perry Copyright 2023
310 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe. Reflecting their own curatorial projects or analyzing feminist-inspired exhibitions, the authors in this book elaborate feminist curating as that which... Read more

Introduction: On the Feminist Work of Organizing

Elke Krasny and Lara Perry 

Part I: Colonial Wounds and Transformative Healing

1. The Museum and the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief, Planetary Mourning, Healing Feminist Curating

Elke Krasny

2. Resisting Extractivism of Wisdom in the Feminist Curatorial Exercise

Emilia Quiñones-Otal

3. Feminist Curating as Storytelling and Mothering: The Work of D and Kate Harding

Tara McDowell

4. Curating Feminine Alterity: Deconstructing Feminist Strategies by Contemporary Iranian Women Artists

Katy Shahandeh

5. Geographies of Community Care: Cultural Spaces curated by Black Womxn in Copenhagen and Vienna

Teju Adisa-Farrar

6. In the Spirit of Futura: Daily Practices and Challenges of Producing and Maintaining a Feminist Art Space

Katharina Koch

7. Rewriting the Manifesto and Filipina Feminist Publishing

Faye Cura

Part II. State Hegemony and Resistant Communities

8.  Human Rights, Memory and Contemporary Artistic Practice in Turkey

Eylem Ertürk

9.   Stretching the Institution, Cultivating Interdependency: Feminist Curating as Political Organizing in the Post-Crisis Spanish State

Carlota Mir

10. Radical Geographies of Feminist Curating within the Post-Yugoslav Space

Jelena Petrović

11. Summoning the Witches of the Past: Curatorial Research on Witchcraft in Art & Activism

Katharina Brandl

12. Encounters with Asian Diasporic Identities: The Exhibition Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman at the Times Art Center Berlin

Julia Hartmann

13. The Vulva Case: Feminist Art, Digital Obscenity, and Censorship in Japan

Hitomi Hasegawa

14. On the Production and Challenging of Sexual Norms through the Art Institution: A Viennese Case Study

Juliane Saupe

15. Searching for Ann(e) : Digital Fan Curation and the Expansion of the Queer Heritage Landscape

Katelyn Williams 

16.   On Common Spaces, Affinity and the Problem of a Torn Social Fabric

Dana Daymand and Nika Dubrovsky

Part III. Labour Injustice and the Politics of Solidarity 

17.  Curating as a Collective Process: Feminist, Curatorial, and Educational Perspectives

Dorothee Richter

18.  Your Hands in My Shoes: Reorganizing La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art in Noisy-le-Sec

Émilie Renard and Vanessa Desclaux

19. Objects of Desire: Curating Sex Worker Art in the 21st Century 

Lena Chen

20. Whose Visibility? Labour Divides, Care Politics, and Strategies of Solidarity in the Art Field

Angela Dimitrakaki

Index

 

 

Biography

Elke Krasny is Professor for Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Lara Perry works in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton.