Issue #92 Action, Activism, and Art and/as Thought: A Dialogue with the Artworking of Sonia Khurana and Sutapa Biswas and the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt

Action, Activism, and Art and/as Thought: A Dialogue with the Artworking of Sonia Khurana and Sutapa Biswas and the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt

Griselda Pollock

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Sonia Khurana, Logic of Birds, 2006. Still from single channel video, loop.

Issue #92
June 2018










Notes
1

Lisa Tickner, The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907–14 (University of Chicago Press, 1988).

2

Ewa Ziarek, Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2012.)

3

Elizabeth Grosz, "The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges," in Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, eds. Henriette Gunkel, Nigianni Chrysanthi, and Fanny Söderback (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 13–22, 16.

4

Grosz, “The Future of Feminist Theory,” 15.

5

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

6

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

7

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

8

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

9

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

10

Unpublished manuscript shared with the author.

11

Judith Butler and Zeynep Gambetti, Vulnerability in Resistance (Duke University Press, 2016).

12

Bracha Ettinger, “Fragilization and Resistance,” Studies in the Maternal 1, no. 2 (2009): 1–31.

13

Hélène Cixous, “Castration or Decapitation?” trans. Annette Kuhn, Signs 7, no. 1 (1981): 41–55.

14

Khurana

15

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 1998), 198.

16

Arendt, Human Condition, 198–99.

17

Arendt, Human Condition, 200.

18

Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Present: Six Exercises in Political Thought (Viking Press, 1968), 193.

A version of this text was delivered as a talk at Haus der Kunst, Munich, May 4, 2018, for Feminism and Art Theory Now, organized by Lara Demori. All images courtesy of the artists.