How do feminist artists care?
Session will present: In-PersonFeminist care is an ethical position grounded in personal, ecological and political concerns. With the shifting ontologies of a world shaped by pandemic, climate catastrophe, artificial intelligence, and regressions in reproductive freedom, feminist artists have recalibrated what it means to care. Artists approach these urgent questions through the radicality of material practice, reshaping the world as they reshape both object and discourse. Care is transmuted into action, inquiry and relationships that are revealed in aesthetic interventions. What do we pay attention to when we center care in our art practice? In what ways do we take responsibility or demand accountability from others? How do we respond to diverse, pluralistic communities living through very specific contexts that may be historically marginalized, oppressed and ignored? How do we bring our communities together while maintaining necessary bounds of protection? This session inquires into how feminist artists care in the new era, and posits perspectives that may overturn long-held assumptions about the ontology of womanhood, femininity, and feminism itself. The panel seeks to open up a dialogue amongst a diverse set of voices that, collectively, suggest new directions for feminist ethics and the possibilities of radical aesthetic and poetic strategies of care.
Field(s) of Study:
Topics: Feminisms
Modern Movements: Contemporary
Theory / Practice: Artistic Practice
Field: Studio Practice
Time Period: Twenty-First Century
Chair:
Keren Moscovitch, School of Visual Arts
Abstract Submissions Closed