| Abstract: | What does it mean to produce art and to curate in contemporary Europe and in preformative times? Performing feminism in cultural production, without border, is situated in the new geopolitical reality of Europe and historically constructed hegemonic discourses of everyday. Being as much as possible outside the mainstream spaces, results in a sense of being outside the mainstream and more importantly outside the art market.
In discussing Cista svoboda [Naked Freedom] by Marina Gržinic and Aina Šmid (2010), (im)possibilities of social change under the conditions of financial capitalism that permeate art production as well as politics of today are addressed.
I loosely draw on bell hooks’ notion of a feminist movement, advanced in Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000), constructing visual representation embedded in action, merging a kind of restless criticality with a social consciousness. Such method of engagement incorporates the element of self-criticality, including reflection one’s positioning, class, race as well as an inclusive approach to gender representation and its geographies; a self-reflexive way of de-centering, contesting and problematising the ongoing ideological constructions of European subjectivity. |
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