The future will be feminist, or it will not be. In the broadest way possible, feminism has been and continues to be discontent with the way in which the world is organised through: structured through species, class, caste, race, sexuality, and gender difference. Organising against persisting systemic violence and for justice and joyous futures is central to feminism.
Starting from the meanings of curare, to care and to cure, which are the etymological root of the word curating, the conversation focuses on ways of curating that organise and care for feminist futures as they center interdependencies in care as ethico-political and corpo-material relations. Curatorial examples are taken from the following two volumes, edited together with Lara Perry: Curating as Feminist Organising and Curating with Care.
Elke Krasny
Elke Krasny, PhD, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Krasny focuses on concerns of care, reproductive labor, social and environmental justice, commemorative practices and transnational feminisms in art, architecture, infrastructures and urbanism. Together with Lara Perry, she edited Curating as Feminist Organising (Routledge, 2023) and Curating with Care (Routledge, 2023).
Her book Living with an Infected Planet. Covid-19 Feminism and the Global Frontline of Care (transcript publishers) focuses on militarised care essentialism and feminist recovery plans in pandemic times.