Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts

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>

Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts is highly accessible. Using interdisciplinary methods, the authors synthesize key theorists... and theoretical concepts in ways a student-reader will find familiar and useful in informing their own related practices, including research, writing, and art-making

Préface
Reframes and rearticulates concepts of of place, space, belonging and identity from a range of perspectives including feminist art histories, art practice and performative activities.

Auteur
Basia Sliwinska is an art historian and theorist who works as a Research Fellow at the NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access art history journal, Revista de História de Arte. Her work is situated within feminist art history, theory and practice, focusing on visual activism and artivism within transnational global frameworks. Basia is an Associate Research Fellow at the Valand Academy (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), and a Member of the Editorial Board of Third Text. She was a Visiting Professor at the Art Academy of Latvia (Riga) in 2022, and at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland in 2021. Between 2018 and 2022 she was on the Research Team of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project VASDiV: Visual Activism and Sexual Diversity in Vietnam. In 2023, she joined the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University as 2023 Visiting Fellow. Catherine Dormor, PhD is Professor of Textile Practices and Feminisms at the University of Westminster, UK, where she is also Head of Westminster School of Arts.

Texte du rabat
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

Résumé
This book builds new visions of belonging and new articulations of place and space through various models of artistic practice by women. Exploring how these practices reclaim and renegotiate space - institutional, urban, or natural - it interrogates the politics of artistic practice as a means of creating transnational networks of solidarity. Presenting a collection of case studies detailing the practices of womxn artists from China, Europe, North America and Latin America, the book considers relationships between artmaking, process and belonging. This transnational framework activates solidarity at a time of intensified divisions, partitioning global narratives, unequal trajectories. The contributors engage in a conversation signalling transversal thinking and artmaking in order to articulate and activate 'in-between' spaces. Organised around the triangulation of modes of belonging: spatial, affective and collective, these essays consider ways in which female agency disrupts borders and activates concerns around different forms of citizenship. Considering the current time of rising nationalisms and erecting borders, this book offers new narratives that build bridges across cultures; it's wide coverage will inform new directions in interdisciplinary research in visual culture, feminism, transnationalism, and cross-cultural anthropology. Cover Image credit: Keren Anavy, Garden of Living Images (2018), general installation view (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Wave Hill. Photographer: Stefan Hagen

Contenu
List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, Catherine Dormor (The University of Westminster, 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 (*California State University, San Bernardino, USA) 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 Lan…