Conference:
Have Some Imagination: Towards a Manifesto for Arts Education
7 - 8 February 2025
Presented by Baltic and Northumbria University
Paper title:Teaching, Practicing, Researching for a Feminist Future
Prof Rebecca Fortnum (Central Saint Martins) and Dr Marita Fraser (Glasgow School of Art)
As part of the panel: Learning from Feminist Archives
Prof Rebecca Fortnum, Dr Marita Fraser, Prof Catherine Grant, Althea Greenan
What strategies and methods do feminists use for arts-based practice and research and how do they teach or share them? This presentation/performance from members of the Feminist Futures research group explores ways artists and researchers can excavate and articulate women’s creative practices and legacies. Working across a range of disciplines it will expand on the lived experience of a group of researchers, working closely to generate new knowledge for feminist histories and contemporary feminist art practice. By developing methods such as correspondence, re-enactment, embodiment and fabulation, these projects have been able to reanimate discourse around voice, experiment, form, and sexual difference that characterised earlier feminist art, whilst developing new diverse creative ways of undertaking research from feminist perspectives. These methods are enriched through the imagination of artists, break down the artificial divides between art practice, history and theory, leading to the possibility of a recalibration of value within arts education.
Roundtable Workshop
Representatives from the Feminist Futures Group along with Althea Greenan and Catherine Grant will lead a roundtable workshop that will include reflections on the methods explored in the papers. Depending on size of audience, there will be a range of possible activities to activate the discussion. The audience’s input on how we can learn from feminist archives is welcome
