"Alive... again." Unmoored in the Aquafuture of Ellen Gallagher's Watery Ecstatic
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 76432764
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1353/wsq.2017.0001
- Title of journal
- Women's Studies Quarterly
- Article number
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- First page
- 246
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 1&2
- ISSN
- 0732-1562
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://ulster.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/REF2021/EQEBXKw7ryFIqjzXt0QIDtYBDe1tLSyTwF9JYUOPLFaz6A?e=hFusuC
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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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D - Art, Conflict & Society
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The marine life and aquatic worlds depicted in Ellen Gallagher's Watery Ecstatic series of artworks conceive an aqua future through Afro futurist aesthetics. They feature the black Atlantic in counter memories that reinscribe the historical murder of African women through a myth of their survival and transformation into aquatic beings. The artworks defy contemporary eliminations of, and assaults on, black lives to claim a spectacular present and post human future. This essay explores the artworks' queer politics and undoing of race and gender binaries through interdisciplinary means conceived of both in the spirit of the artworks themselves and the cultural boundlessness of Afro futurism.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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