ELKE KRASNY is a curator, feminist cultural theorist, urban researcher and writer. Her theoretical and curatorial work is firmly rooted in socially engaged art and spatial practices, urban epistemology, post-colonial theory, and feminist historiography, with recent research particularly engaged with care discourses. In 2019 she edited ‘Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet‘, containing 21 case studies as well as 12 essays by international authors on the topics of work, economy and ecology in architecture. Following are some other recent texts:
Elke Krasny, ‘Care’ in AA Files 76, edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, London, 2019.
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Elke Krasny, ‘Divided We Share: On the Ethics and Politics of Public Space’ in Shared Cities Atlas. Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Helena Doudová, Rotterdam: nai010, 2019.
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Elke Krasny, ‘Citizenship and the Museum: On Feminist Acts’ in Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption, and Change, edited by Jenna Ashton, Edinburgh and Boston: MuseumsEtc, 74-99. 2017.
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Elke Krasny, ‘Claims for the Future: Indigenous Rights, Housing Rights, Land Rights, Women’s Rights’ in Performing Citizenship: Bodies, Agencies, Limitations, edited by Paula Hildebrandt, Sybille Peters, Mirjam Schaub, Kathrin Wildner, and Gesa Ziemer, 111-126, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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SARA AHMED is an independent feminist scholar, writer and activist. Her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape; and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life worlds, as well as institutional cultures. Until the end of 2016, she was a Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London having been previously based in Women’s Studies at Lancaster University. She resigned from her post at Goldsmiths in protest at the failure to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. She is the author of many books including What’s The Use (Duke University Press, 2019) and Living A Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2018).
Following are some links to a range of texts and lectures by Ahmed:
READ 'Complaint and Survival' on FeministKilljoys.com
READ 'Once we find each other, so much else becomes possible' on LitHub.com
READ 'Against Students' on TheNewInquiry.com
LISTEN to Sara Ahmed at the Wheeler Centre
WATCH Sarah Ahmed on UMBC 'Dresher Conversations'
WATCH Open Lecture at Malmö University
WATCH 'The Institutional as Usual' at Barnard Center for Research on Women
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TIMMAH BALL is a writer of Ballardong Noongar heritage who is influenced by studying and working in the field of urban planning. Her writing has appeared in a range of anthologies and literary journals.
Timmah Ball, ‘Imagining a Black, Queer Aboriginal Melbourne: On the Urban Design and Activism of Lisa Bellear, on Literary Hub fromBlak Brow – The Lifted Brow #40, 2017.
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Timmah Ball, ‘Still talkin' up to the white woman : Encounters with corporate feminism’, Griffith Review, Issue 56, March 2017.
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This essay by GINA WATTS engages the theories of Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor on radical empathy, and follows the work of bell hooks, Verne Harris, Jarrett Drake and others in the call for social justice in archival work:
Gina Watts, ‘Applying radical empathy to Women's March documentation efforts: a reflection exercise’, Archives and Manuscripts, 45:3, 2017, pp.191-201.
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In this article NALINIE MOOTEN seeks to interlink the feminist ethics of care with postcolonial insights in International Relations theory (IR) in order to develop the premise of a ‘postcolonial ethics of care’.
Nalinie Mooten, ‘Toward a Postcolonial Ethics of Care’, www.ethicsofcare.org, 18 December, 2106.
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ADRIAN PIPER, ‘Passing for White, Passing for Black’ (1991), originally commissioned by Harper's Magazine. First published in Transitions (1992) and reprinted in Adrian Piper, Out of Order, Out of Sight, Volume 1, Selected Essays in Meta-Art 1968–1992, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996
As often happens in such situations, I went on automatic pilot. I don't remember what I said; I suppose I managed not to make a fool of myself. The most famous and highly respected member of the faculty observed me for a while from a distance and then came forward. Without introduction or preamble he said to me with a triumphant smirk, "Miss Piper, you're about as black as I am."
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RICHARD DALE, ‘Going East: Post-Orientalism in contemporary New Zealand art’, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 23, 1999.
The video, Kum of Sum Yung Guy, 1997, made by Daniel Malone and Denise Kum, who is better known as a sculptor and installation artist, doesn’t represent a nostalgic longing for the Other with which traditional orientalists generally identify. Rather, its explicit play with racial authenticity takes an ironic and distanced position from the orientalist’s fantasy, keeping it at arm’s length. (Dale, 1999)
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CAMILLE THOMAS, ‘An Examination of Proximity within Isolation’, from Quivering Quarantine, Volume II, 2020.
There is always proximity between two people, they can never become one. Two bodies are unmergeable — for we are all our own persons, living mostly inside the seclusion of our own heads. Not even in sex do we really become one.
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DEBORAH BIRD ROSE, ‘Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed’, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Eds. A.Tsing, N. Bubandt, E.Gan and H. Swanson), University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. Rose’s text is included in this timely anthology in which twenty eminent humanists and scientists were invited to revitalise curiosity, observation, and trans-disciplinary conversation about life on earth.
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ROBIN WALL KIMMERER, ‘The Gift of Strawberries’ in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Milkweed Editions, Minnesota, 2013.
Kimmerer is a Potawatomi (North American First Nations) woman, botanist and ecologist, who explores the persistence of Indigenous culture and the possibility of gift economy in contemporary American society.
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The text ‘The more I get to know you’ by artist ANNA MCDERMOTT comprises the spoken word element from her video work of the same name in this exhibition.
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