Curating as Feminist Organizing

Elke Krasny is Professor for Art and Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe.

Introduction: On the Feminist Work of Organizing; Part I: Colonial Wounds and Transformative Healing 1. The Museum and the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief, Planetary Mourning, Healing Feminist Curating; 2. Resisting Extractivism of Wisdom in the Feminist Curatorial Exercise; 3. Feminist Curating as Storytelling and Mothering: The Work of D and Kate Harding; 4. Curating Feminine Alterity: Deconstructing Feminist Strategies by Contemporary Iranian Women Artists; 5. Geographies of Community Care: Cultural Spaces Curated by Black Womxn in Copenhagen and Vienna; 6. In the Spirit of Futura: Daily Practices and Challenges of Producing and Maintaining a Feminist Art Space; 7. Rewriting the Manifesto and Filipina Feminist Publishing; Part II. State Hegemony and Resistant Communities 8. Human Rights, Memory and Contemporary Artistic Practice in Turkey; 9. Stretching the Institution, Cultivating Interdependency: Feminist Curating as Political Organizing in the Post-Crisis Spanish State; 10. Radical Geographies of Feminist Curating within the Post-Yugoslav Space; 11. Summoning the Witches of the Past: Curatorial Research on Witchcraft in Art and Activism; 12. Encounters with Asian Diasporic Identities: The Exhibition Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman at the Times Art Center Berlin; 13. The Vulva Case: Feminist Art, Digital Obscenity, and Censorship in Japan; 14. On the Production and Challenging of Sexual Norms through the Art Institution: A Viennese Case Study; 15. Searching for Ann(e) : Digital Fan Curation and the Expansion of the Queer Heritage Landscape; 16. On Common Spaces, Affinity and the Problem of a Torn Social Fabric; Part III. Labour Injustice and the Politics of Solidarity-- 17. Curating as a Collective Process: Feminist, Curatorial and Educational Perspectives; 18. Your Hands in My Shoes: Reorganizing La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art in Noisy-le-Sec; 19. Objects of Desire: Curating Sex Worker Art in the 21st Century; 20. Whose Visibility? Labour Divides, Care Politics, and Strategies of Solidarity in the Art Field; Index.