Overview

Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts interrogates the politics of space expressed via womxn’s artistic practices, which prioritise solidarity and collaboration across borders, imagining attentive geographies of difference. It considers belonging as a manifestation of processes of becoming that traverse borders and generate new spaces and forms of difference. In doing so, the book aims to catalyse mutual social relations founded upon responsibility and response-ability to each other. The transnational framework activates concerns around belonging at a time of intensified divisions, partitioning global narratives, unequal trajectories and increasing violence against bodies of the most vulnerable, largely founded on Eurocentric paradigms of political, economic and cultural superiority. The contributors engage in a conversation signalling transversal thinking and artmaking in order to articulate and activate ‘in-between’ spaces. This is to welcome co-affective models of belonging that question versatile embodiments of subjectivity as both agentic and as interrelational. Organised around the triangulation of modes of belonging: spatial, affective and collective, overarched by a transnational lens that acknowledges non-hierarchical, local and socially relevant genealogies against universalising politics of globalisation, these essays consider afresh ways in which female agency disrupts borders and activates concerns around different forms of belonging, citizenship and transnationalisms. Cover Image credit: Keren Anavy, Garden of Living Images (2018), general installation view (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Wave Hill. Photographer: Stefan Hagen

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Author:   Dr. Basia Sliwinska ,  Catherine Dormor
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781501358753

ISBN 10:   1501358758
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, Catherine Dormor (Royal College of Art, UK) and Basia Sliwinska (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal) 1. Frayed & Fraying: textile actions and the edges of belonging, Catherine Dormor (Royal College of Art, UK) 2. Species of Space: Marisol, Marta Minujín and Nicola L on Party-going, Domestic Mayhem and Nomadism, Flavia Frigeri (National Portrait Gallery, London) 3. ‘With my portapak on my back’: Identity and Belonging in Shigeko Kubota’s Broken Diary, Helena Shaskevich (CUNY, USA) 4. Patty Chang: Body, Performance, and Transnational Border Crossings, Jane Chin Davidson (Board Member of Art Journal) 5. Borderless and Undocumented: Day by Day in Southeast Asia, Cristina Nualart (IE University, Spain) 6. Suspended: Bahar Behbahani’s Displacement and Longing in the Persian Garden, Aliza Edelman (independent curator, art historian, and editor) 7. Through Walls and Windows: Irene Buarque ´s work in the 1970s, Margarida Brito Alves and Giulia Lamoni (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal) 8. Disrupting Subaltern Geographies: The Artistic Intersections of Belkis Ayón, Samantha A. Noël (Wayne State University, USA) 9. Keren Anavy’s Garden of Living Images: Transnational Landscapes as Spaces of Ecological Order, Aliza Edelman (independent curator, art historian, and editor) and Ketzia Alon (independent academic, social activist, art curator and critic) 10. Collective Agency: Creative Communities in Australian Feminist Art, Rachael Haynes (QUT, Australia) and Courtney Pedersen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 11. Woman Writing’ as a Curatorial Method: Narratives of Belonging in the Art Practices of Chantal Peñalosa and Bridget Smith, Caroline Stevenson (London College of Fashion, UAL, UK) 12. A Smuggler, a Butcher, and a Fairy: Doing Things with One’s Body, Jana Kukaine and Janis Taurens (Art Academy of Latvia) 13. Nieme Szaty Królowej (Queen’s Silent Robes): a collective walk re-claiming female bodily agency through transnational solidarity, Basia Sliwinska (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal) Notes on Contributors Index

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This is an impressive collection of essays that addresses, through a feminist lens, important and timely issues. Examining various genres of art from across the globe, and representing diverse topics, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is an important contribution to the existing literature on feminist art practice. * Maria Photiou, Art Historian and Research Fellow at the University of Derby, UK *

This is an impressive collection of essays that addresses, through a feminist lens, important and timely issues. Examining various genres of art from across the globe, and representing diverse topics, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is an important contribution to the existing literature on feminist art practice. * Maria Photiou, Art Historian and Research Fellow, University of Derby, UK * One of the urgent issues of our day remains the European invention of the nation state. Combined with issues of climate and poverty, crossing national borders and belonging as a citizen are matters of life itself. This book responds to this conjuncture of crises and its need for an actively intersectional understanding of consequent manifestations of art and gender. Grounded in extensive feminist thinking, focused on particular exemplars of artists and artworks, and structured around three modes of belonging: spatial, affective, and collective , it promises to be an essential contribution to the discussion as it unfolds in the contemporary art world. * Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory, Loughborough University, UK * Connecting global artists to multiple conversations about economics, gender and politics, this volume will be an invaluable guide for readers interested in the responses by contemporary feminist artists to myriad capitalist, patriarchial and imperial structures - a must read on this topic. * Anne Swartz, Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA * Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts encapsulates the breadth and the beauty, as well as the critical challenge, of art that makes worlds in the margins, along the edges and through the charged spaces of the in-between. Never reducing the wonderfully diverse particularities of the transnational case studies brought together in the volume, Dormor and Sliwinska manage the complex task of creating a dialogue between them with care-filled attention and a clarity of purpose. This is a book that speaks to a difficult present, without losing hope for the possibility of belonging, together, in a more generous and equitable future. * Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Transnational Art and Feminism, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, UK *

This is an impressive collection of essays that addresses, through a feminist lens, important and timely issues. Examining various genres of art from across the globe, and representing diverse topics, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is an important contribution to the existing literature on feminist art practice. * Maria Photiou, Art Historian and Research Fellow, University of Derby, UK * One of the urgent issues of our day remains the European invention of the nation state. Combined with issues of climate and poverty, crossing national borders and belonging as a citizen are matters of life itself. This book responds to this conjuncture of crises and its need for an actively intersectional understanding of consequent manifestations of art and gender. Grounded in extensive feminist thinking, focused on particular exemplars of artists and artworks, and structured around three modes of belonging: spatial, affective, and collective , it promises to be an essential contribution to the discussion as it unfolds in the contemporary art world. * Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory, Loughborough University, UK *

Author Information

Basia Sliwinska is an art historian and theorist working as a Research Fellow at the NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Recent books include Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, editor (2021), The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self, co-editor (2018) and the monograph The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (2016). Catherine Dormor is Reader in Textile Practices and Head of Research Programmes at the Royal College of Art, UK. A practicing artist and researcher, her recent publications include the co-edited book The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles (2018) and A Philosophy of Textile: Between Practice & Theory (2020). She is Regional Editor (Europe) for Textile: the Journal of Cloth & Culture and her artworks feature in a number of international collections.

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