Desire, dissent, empathy in art: Biographic records and institutional gaps
Sofia Bempeza
Abstract
Drawing from an intersectional feminist perspective the public lecture focuses on the attempts to reclaim forms of representation, subjectification, and political intervention in the field of aesthetics and art. The paper presents feminist and queer art positionality from which we can convey situated knowledges by thinking through theoretical propositions on desire, dissent, and empathy. On the one hand, the author highlights biographic documentation in transdisciplinary art practices (i.e. Lis Rhodes, Lubaina Himid, Aykan Safoğlu), and on the other, she focuses on feminist critiques within art education and the #metoo movement in Greece.