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Basia Sliwinska

Profession
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies

Biography

Relevant publications

The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (IB Tauris, 2016;2018); The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self (Routledge, 2018; 2020); journal special issue ‘Transformative Education’ (Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2020); Feminist Visual Activism and the Body (Routledge, forthcoming 2021); Transnational belonging and female agency in the arts (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021)

Teaching 

Fashion Cultures and Histories, Critical Issues in Fashion Research, Dissertations, PhD supervision

Research interests

Visual activism, artivism, feminism, new materialism, the body, gender, ethics of care, women's contemporary art practice in historical, critical and philosophical contexts, visual cultures, critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis

Relevant conferences / symposia

Radical Acts of Care: Feminist Art, Healthcare, and Community (session at the College Art Association 109th Annual Conference, New York, forthcoming 2021); Ecologies of care: Feminist Activism. (session at the College Art Association 108th Annual Conference, Chicago, 2020).

Links

Feminist Visual Activism and the Body

PARADOX FINE ART EUROPEAN FORUM Strand C Future Forums

l'étrangère CANAN, Paula Chambers, Malgorzata Markiewicz, Su Richardson 'Home Strike'