Gossips, Defiant Muses and Camp Sisterhood
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Live Conversation, 25 June 19:30
A live discussion between speakers and moderator iLiana Fokianaki will depart from recorded lectures, understood and analysed through the lens of current events. The event will be livestreamed at live.hetnieuweinstituut.nl and on Facebook.
Elisabeth Lebovici
Elisabeth Lebovici is a French art historian, critic, journalist, and lecturer at Sciences-Po in Paris. After obtaining a PhD in aesthetics in 1983, she began publishing art criticism pieces, later becoming chief editor of Beaux Arts magazine (1987-90), and Arts and Culture Editor for the daily newspaper Libération, from 1991 to 2006. Lebovici’s work grapples with gender and sexuality, as well as the relationships between feminism, AIDS activism, queer politics, and contemporary art.
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an independent curator, editor, and writer based in Paris whose research interest spans situated curatorial practices, empathy, transnational feminism, slow institutions, degrowth, and performative practices in the former Eastern Europe. She is the curator of the Contour Biennale 9 (Mechelen, Belgium, 2019) and, together with Giovanna Zapperi, of the first comprehensive exhibition of the videos of French actor and feminist activist Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990) which will take place at the Museum of Modern Art, Lille, and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (both 2019).
Gossips
The aim of this lecture series is to bring women together and to revive and reanimate the idea of ‘the gossip’ and ‘gossiping’ – originally a free space where women could develop and share ideas and thoughts. The series also sets out to collectivise the feminist discourse and to offer a platform where new expressions can be conceived and developed, expressing opposition to the terms used to define and demote women.
The conversation is stimulated by citing examples from daily life and sharing non-linear forms of knowledge, with the aim of breaking through sexist rhetoric and patriarchal responses. This series applies a feminist perspective to topics such as work, reproduction, intersectionality and activism. The series is curated by iLiana Fokianaki.
