Of Other Spaces : Where Does Gesture Become Event?
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 52343277
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- ISBN
- 9783956793783
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? is a book edited by Sophia Yadong Hao, published by Sternberg Press (2019).
Utilising the experimental methodologies of women artists’ collectives of the 1970s and 80s, Hao constructs a dynamic editorial structure which critically foregrounds practices of resistance and self-organisation to discuss, and embody, the inherent sedition animating much feminist thinking. This is further unpacked in the book with an introduction by Hao and two interviews about her methods.
Hao’s reflexive editing foregrounds the transient, often ephemeral, exchanges that constitute immediate feminist social realities, to explore how an editorial structure can act as a means for the co-production of knowledge, in which research is opened out to a broad range of social practices that do not solely draw their authority from normative institutional methodologies.
Featuring contributions from seminal women thinkers, writers and artists - such as Amelia Jones, Lynda Morris and Laura Mulvey - the book’s title is a reference to Hannah Arendt, who considered politics as a ‘space of appearance’; a process of being seen and heard. When deprived of this context of ‘appearance’ these gestures (whether artistic, social or political) cannot become events that have the potential to usher in new alternatives. Hao’s project subverts and challenges stereotypical readings of the often-contested narratives of feminist thought, as they are articulated within traditional art historical frameworks, to re-insert the transgressive gesture of feminist activism.
The book is one outcome of a range of associated activities including: a two-chapter exhibition, a rolling event programme, a symposium (these took place at Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, 2016-2017) the project was reviewed in a-n, Art Monthly, This Is Tomorrow, MAP, DISPATCH FMI, The List and The Scotsman, and was funded by Creative Scotland and the Henry Moore Foundation (£42,200).
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- Non-English
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