Feminist Duration Reading Group
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3666
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- An ongoing public programme encompassing reading groups, film screenings, performance, workshops, and guerrilla translation
- Open access status
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- Month
- March
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Art
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Initiated by Reckitt in 2015, Feminist Duration is a long term research project that embodies the durational work of maintaining feminist histories, especially feminist activity and writing that has not been widely disseminated in Anglo-American circles. Encompassing performative techniques such as reading out-loud, re-enactment, intergenerational exchange and feminist approaches to citation, Reckitt has devised thirty-six events across the UK and internationally, while supporting many others to lead sessions. She has written essays on the project and shared invitations to write with other participants, resulting in co-authored articles, programme reports, and a podcast on friendship and feminist organizing.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Feminist Duration is an ongoing public programme encompassing reading groups, film screenings, performance, workshops, and guerrilla translation. It explores how earlier periods of feminist activity, especially those that have not been widely disseminated in Anglo-American circles, can inform and inspire current and future feminist activity. Feminist Duration does not treat earlier feminisms as historical artefacts, but seeks to reignite their latent potential and radicalism. Aesthetic principals embraced include: collective out-loud reading; “embodied citation”; intergenerational feminist film screenings with artists from the UK and Italy; intergenerational panel discussions with artists and thinkers from Italy and internationally; commissioned performance; and workshops exploring the translation and transmission of historical feminisms. _x000D_
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The following questions stimulate the programme: _x000D_
1. How to make earlier feminist projects public, especially those that have not circulated widely in Anglo-American, such as second wave Italian feminism? _x000D_
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2. How can a dialogue with earlier radical feminist practices inform and inspire contemporary feminist collectivity, creativity and resistance, especially through detonating the unrealised promise of practical tools and theoretical insights including: Italian feminist tactics of withdrawal and affective refusal; collective activities built on difference and disparity that do not suppress difference; revaluing feminised socially reproductive labour; how reciprocal narration can forge sites of political coappearance; and the distinctiveness of each individual’s voice and subjective life. _x000D_
In 2015 Reckitt established the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG), led by an intergenerational, trans-national Working Group. Each month the group meets to explore feminisms outside the dominant Anglo-American canon. Hosts for meetings have included: Barbican Art Gallery; South London Gallery (year-long residency); SPACE (three-year residency); internationally at Art Metropole, Toronto. Reckitt has published numerous essays and conversations on the FDRG, including ‘Generating Feminisms: Italian Feminisms and the “Now You Can Go” programme’ in Art Journal.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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