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Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Vorwort Reframes and rearticulates the notion place and space from a range of perspectives, including feminist art histories, art practice and performative activities. Zusammenfassung 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...
