Reminder of the forthcoming session "Feminisms and Curating at the NORDIK Art History Conference, Stockholm 2012.
Best,
Jessica Skrubbe


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Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
PhD, Researcher
Dept. of Art History
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm

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Ämne: CFP: Feminisms and Curating (Stockholm, 24-27 Oct 12)

From: Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Jan 10, 2012
Subject: CFP: Feminisms and Curating (Stockholm, 24-27 Oct 12)

Stockholm, October 24 - 27, 2012
Deadline: Jan 15, 2012

Art History Conference NORDIK 2012
Session: Feminisms and Curating. Strategies, Interventions, Histories

Feminist theories and methodologies are by now well integrated in art
historical research and artistic practices. In recent years, feminisms
in art have been institutionalized in major art exhibitions, e.g. WACK!
(Los Angeles & touring), Global Feminisms (New York), Rebelle (Arnhem),
Konstfeminism (Helsingborg & touring), Goddesses (Oslo), Gender Check
(Vienna & Warsaw) and Gender Battle (Santiago de Compostela). Public
art museums have shown a growing interest in working with feminist
perspectives and gender equality in relation to museum collections (see
e.g. Andra Önskemuseet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Modern Women,
MoMA, New York). Obviously, feminist art curating, as a practice of art
interpretation and politics of display, intersects with this diverse
area of research and artistic practices. On the other hand, the
institutionalisation of feminisms, its relative success, or failure, is
under debate. Institutional critique has been a crucial feminist
methodology and many interventions have taken place outside the
institutional context of the white cube and strategically have targeted
established art practices and ideologies.

It is only recently that a theorization of feminist art curating as a
specific field of knowledge, has emerged. This session invites papers
that present critical perspectives on and analyses of feminist art
curating, its strategies, interventions and histories. The general
objective of the session is to theorize and to critically reflect on
the diverse practices of feminist art curating from the 1960s onward.
The context is not limited to art museums and exhibitions alone, but
includes all kinds of alternative spaces for artistic interventions.
 Topical question include, but are not restricted to, the following:

•How can the diverse practices feminist art curating be theorized and
historicized?
•Which theories and methodologies have informed the strategies of
feminist art curating?
•How are the interventions feminist art curating related to political,
economic, social, and cultural structures?

There is a limited literature on feminist art curating. A seminal
publication was the “Curatorial Strategies” issue of n.paradoxa (ed.
Renee Baert, 2006). In 2010, Feminisms is still our name: 7 Essays on
Historiography and Curatorial Practices (eds. Hedlin Hayden & Sjöholm
Skrubbe), focusing on historiographical critique and the relation
between academic and curatorial feminist practices, was published. The
forthcoming book Politics in a Glass Case: Exhibiting Women’s and
Feminist Art (eds. Dimitrakaki & Perry, forthcoming 2012) investigates
the impact of feminism on curatorial practice and exhibition cultures
in Europe and North America. Research related to the specific question
of feminist exhibitions and curatorial practices has been presented in
publications on museum critique, e.g. Griselda Pollock’s Encounters in
the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive (2007).
Beginning in 2010, the international research network Transnational
perspectives on women’s art, feminism and curating, whose participants
include scholars, curators and artists, has arranged a number of
workshops and symposia devoted to this particular field of research
(see http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/irn).

Chair: Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, Ph.D., Researcher, Dept. of Art
History, Stockholm University ([log in to unmask])

NB: Direct your communication both to the chairs of relevant sessions
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This is one panel at the NORDIK conference. We invite paper proposals
for the 21 sessions spanning a wide range of topics.

Submit a 1-2 page abstract, brief c.v. (two pages max.), and full
contact information by January 15th, 2012.

More information: http://nordicarthistory.org/conference
Call for papers by January 15th, 2012

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Feminisms and Curating (Stockholm, 24-27 Oct 12). In: H-ArtHist,
Jan 10, 2012. <http://arthist.net/archive/2508>.

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