Dr Lana Locke

Biography

I am an artist practising in sculpture, installation, video, drawing, painting and performance. I draw on feminist epistemology and interdisciplinary art practice to foreground social and ecological precariousness.

I am interested in the 'feral' – out of place, between the wild and the civilised - and the artistic and political promise of this indeterminacy. My conception of the feral extends to an ecofeminist recognition of a viral, global interconnectedness between species, that ignores patriarchal hierarchy. I seek to reclaim the feral to undermine distinctions of racial, gendered and social privilege; and human and non-human needs in terms of the precarious ecology of the planet.

I am Co-Convenor of the Subjectivity and Feminisms Research Group;
and EARTH (Ecological Arts Research Transdisciplinary Hive)