Feminist manifesto and social art practice archive. [Website]

Gausden, Caroline

Abstract

Welcome to the Feminist Manifesto and Social Art Practice Archive. The archive has been compiled over a period of three years as part of Caroline Gausden’s practice based curatorial PhD research. The research examines the politics and poetics of the manifesto form within the context of feminist theoretical writing and activism. It is also concerned with the politics and aesthetics of social art practice, a term that is a subject of much current debate within contemporary art discourse. Growing out of the project’s aims to uncover feminist manifestos in unexpected forms and locations, the research intends to test the thesis that certain works of art, as well as familiar written proclamations, may be considered as manifestos thanks to their reception, function and interpretation. Along with the audio archive, which is intended as a public research resource, the website contains the research thesis, consisting of three archival boxes that approach the subject from three distinct perspectives: Archive, Hospitality and Manifesto. In each of the three sections there are two parts. The second part of each section, entitled With Archive (AW), With Hospitality (HW) or With Manifesto (MW), contains written elements that connect to the audio content.

Citation

GAUSDEN, C. 2016. Feminist manifesto and social art practice archive. [Website]. Available from: http://feministmanifesto.co.uk/index.html

• Digital Artefact Type: Website
• Deposit Date: Aug 5, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 5, 2020
• Keywords: Feminism; Archives; Hospitality
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/958330
• External URL: http://feministmanifesto.co.uk/index.html