Description
Please note: this event has already taken place. Purchase is for recording access only. This product is a digital video recording of a part of the Conference, WILD THOUGHTS: for a Feminist psychoanalysis-to-come
Title: Feminism and the Arts
Chair: Luisa Pretolani
Alexandra Kokoli
Ruth Novaczek
Helena Reckitt and Gabrielle Moser
Anahita Rezvani
Bios:
Alexandra Kokoli researches feminist artistic and activist practices. She works as Associate Professor in Visual Culture at Middlesex University and as Research Associate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg. She has published widely, including the edited collections: Feminism Reframed, Susan Hiller: The Provisional Texture of Reality (co-ed with Deborah Cherry), Art into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin
and the monograph The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice. She co-leads the Transnational Early Career Research Network (TECReN) in Visual and Performing Arts, funded by the British Academy. Her research on Greenham Common has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Leverhulme Trust.
Ruth Novaczek is a film maker and poet based in London. She works with collaged ’new vernaculars’ in cosmopolitan, feminist and queer films and writing. Her work has been exhibited internationally; her website is www.ruthnovaczek.com. Her 2015 PhD thesis is entitled Écriture Feminine: New Vernaculars in 21st Century Avant-Garde film, she is a faculty member of Transart, and a freelance editor.
Helena Reckitt has worked as an exhibitions and public programmes curator, lecturer, and academic editor in the UK, Canada, and the US. She is currently Reader in Curating in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her long-standing interest in legacies of feminist and queer art, thought and collectivity is reflected across her various activities and projects. She is editor of the books Art and Feminism (Phaidon Press), Acting on AIDS (Serpent’s Tail), and Sanja Ivekovic: Unknown Heroine, A Reader (Calvert 22), and Consultant Editor for The Art of Feminism: The Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality (Chronicle and Tate Publishing). With Jennifer Fisher in 2015/2016 she edited two issues of the Journal of Curatorial Studies on affect, curating, and relationality. In 2022 she edited ‘Instituting Feminism,’ an issue of the journal OnCurating, with Dorothee Richter.
Reckitt has curated group exhibitions including ‘Habits of Care,’ ‘Getting Rid of Ourselves’ ‘Not Quite How I Remember It,’ and ‘What Business Are You In?, and solo exhibitions with artists including Keren Cytter, Manon de Boer, and (with Jon Davies) Ryan Trecartin. In 2015 Reckitt initiated the Feminist Duration Reading Group, a monthly meeting dedicated to the collective exploration of under-represented feminisms from outside the Anglo-American feminist canon. The fdrg currently collaborates with Cell Project Space on the British Art Network-funded CEED (Central and East European Diaspora) Feminisms network, and is in residence at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. The group is one of the curators of the upcoming 2024 Belgrade Salon, ‘Hope Is A Discipline.’ www.feministuration.com
Gabrielle Moser is a writer, educator and independent curator based in Toronto. As a curator, she has organised exhibitions for Access Gallery, Gallery 44: centre for contemporary photography, Gallery TPW, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and Vtape. Her writing appears in venues including Artforum, Art in America, C Magazine, Canadian Art, Fillip, Journal of Visual Culture, Photography & Culture, Prefix Photo and the edited volumes Photography and the Optical Unconscious (Duke 2017) and Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: Making and Being Made (Routledge 2017). Her first book, Projecting Citizenship: photography and belonging in the British Empire, was published by Penn State University Press in 2019 and in 2022, along with Adrienne Huard, she co-edited a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on repair and reparation in visual art. A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA, she is an Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Art Education in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada.
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