Research Communications

Civil partnerships? Queer and feminist curating, Tate, London and University of Brighton, May, 2012

Decorative window banner at Tate Modern reads We can't keep up on a patchwork patterned background

The culmination of the eighteen-month research network project, Transnational perspectives on women’s art, feminism and curating, was a symposium at Tate Modern, London with concurrent workshop and exhibition. A parallel exhibition, programme of events and celebration was held at the… Continue Reading →

2012/05/19 0

Connecting the dots, Virtuality, Technology and Feminism in the Museum – Smithsonian 2011

A research symposium about enabling transformative encounters among institutions, collections and “the people formerly known as the audience” [1] in museums on-site and online. Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 22-24 Sept 2011 and online at the University of Brighton,… Continue Reading →

2011/09/24 0

Common Differences symposium, Issues for Feminist Curating in Post-Socialist Europe, Tallinn, Estonia

Aerial photograph of Talinn, Estonia, with old town of red roofs and crenelated walls and towers, the sea in the distance.

Friday 27 May, 2011 9:30 Registration and coffee 10:00 – 10:30 Katrin Kivimaa Welcome to the Symposium 10:30 – 11:15 Angela Dimitrakaki Feminist Politics and Institutional Critiques: Imagining a Curatorial Commons 11:15 – 12:00… Continue Reading →

2011/05/28 0

Feminisms 2011, seminar, Brighton

A whiteboard after the Feminisms conference. Includes highlight phrases alliances, spatial, demonstrate, perform.

Pavilion Parade, University of Brighton – 12 March 2011 ‘Feminisms 2011’ Programme Morning Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough) ‘Wack! and After’ Suzana Milevska ‘What is it like to be a feminist curator in the Balkans?’ Afternoon What can we make of “the goat”?… Continue Reading →

2011/03/12 0

Feminist Histories and What They Have to Do with Feminism’s Political Future, seminar, Edinburgh, 2011

Edinburgh city scape with dark brick, domes and snow-capped hills beyond.

What indeed constitutes ‘the past’ of feminism? How has this past been mediated and disseminated to the public? Which public, and where? How is the concept of feminist history, even if pluralised as ‘histories’, connected with debates around the oppressive… Continue Reading →

2011/03/11 0

A Feminist Collection? seminar, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011

Office space and seminar group in discussion. Left to right Jessica Sjoholm Skrubbe (Stockholm University), Georgiana Uhlyarik (Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada), Annika Öhrner (Uppsala University), Patrik Steorn (Stockholm University) and Vicky Horne (University of Edinburgh)

In recent years public art museums have formulated different strategies for working with gender equality and feminist perspectives on museum collections. The Second Museum of Our Wishes campaign at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the shows elles@centrepompidou in Paris and Goddesses… Continue Reading →

2011/02/05 0

Montreal Research Workshop – Exhibitions, Archives and Documentation: Approaches to Bodies of Knowledge

Four female researchers with snow and trees in Montreal. from left to right: Jessica Sjoholm Skrubbe (Stockholm University) , Nancy Proctor (Smithsonian), Lara Perry (University of Brighton) and Katrin Kivimaa (Estonian Academy of Arts)

Organized byThe Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, 27 November 2010 Concordia University, Montreal Question for exploration: How does documentation shape thought and history in ways that might be important to those curating feminist exhibitions and those writing the history of such… Continue Reading →

2010/11/27 0

Transnational perspectives on women's art, feminism and curating

A Leverhulme Trust international research network

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