As part of the year-long touring exhibition transfeminisms at Mimosa House, Christine Eyene (Research Curator at Tate Liverpool), Daria Khan (Founding Director of Mimosa House), Jennifer McCabe (Director of SMoCA, USA) and Linsey Young (Curator) will be in conversation, among other curators, on feminist-activist curating and the challenges of running a feminist institution. The panel will be moderated by Natasha Boas (Independent Curator).
Unfolding over five chapters, transfeminisms outlines strategies of resistance through propositions of collective action, care and radical imagination, in order to generate a more equitable future. The exhibition explores the lineage of feminist art practices by facilitating dialogue between emerging and more established artists.
The title transfeminisms is deliberately provocative. The prefix “trans” implies ‘across, beyond, through, on the other side of’; while the ‘s’ in ‘feminisms’ recognises the innumerable definitions of feminism worldwide. Our intention is for transfeminisms to be understood within an inclusive and decolonial context – one that takes us across feminisms and encompasses various ‘trans’ possibilities, such as: transcultural, transcontinental, transgender, transformative, transgressive, transitory, translucent, transparent, transaction, translation, transfusion, transmission, transmutation.
This event is free and open to all.
Christine Eyene is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.
Daria Khan is the founder and director of Mimosa House, and a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jennifer McCabe is director and chief curator of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA.
Linsey Young is a curator whose recent projects include Women in Revolt! Art and Activism 1970 – 1990 at Tate Britain.
Natasha Boas is an independent curator and scholar based in San Francisco and Paris.