Transformative feminisms: Nordic Art in the Transcultural Present
Book launch and reception.
This is the first major publication in any language to re-evaluate the problematics that enmesh feminism, gender, and contemporary Nordic art. Transformative Feminisms probes the shifting nature of the "Nordic" to challenge its popular image as liberal when it comes to genders, sexualities, and ethnicities. It questions the so-called wave model to suggest instead a history of sporadic (re)surfacings and submersions of feminism’s impact on Nordic art over the last sixty years. The intersectional, transhistorical, and transcultural focus nuances the Nordic and demystifies common tropes while reflecting the principal concerns of feminist art scholars working today: the welfare model; gender, sexuality, and the body; transculturality and decolonialization, and posthuman feminism and glitches.
Available in hard copy at discounted price at KU’s bookstore and open access ebook.
Programme
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Arrivals |
| 14:15 - 14:30 |
Welcome by Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev and introduction to Transformative Feminisms by Kerry Greaves
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| 14:30 - 15:15 |
Panel 1: Feminism, the Welfare Model, & Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Moderator: Sanne Kofod Olsen
Panel discussion and Q/A |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Break: refreshments and coffee |
| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Panel 2: Transculturality and Decolonization, & Posthuman Feminisms and Glitches Moderator: Nina Lykke
Panel discussion and Q/A |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Short remarks by Kerry Greaves |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Concluding reception |
Transformative Feminisms: Nordic Art in the Transcultural Present is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the art history research project Feminist Emergency: Women Artists in Denmark, 1960-Present at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.
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