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Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
the history of feminism is, in a sense, a history of autotheory—
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
which means acknowledging intersections
Autotheory reveals the tenuousness of maintaining illusory separations between art and life, theory and practice, work and the self, research and motivation, just as feminist artists and scholars have long argued.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
“performative autoethnography,”
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Theory Rules: Art as Theory / Theory as Art
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
My whole problem with theoretical structures has to do with their displacement of physicality, as if there is a seepage or a toxicity from the experience of the body that is going to invade language and invalidate theory. —Carolee Schneemann, Imaging Her Erotics
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
This book considers the ways in which artists and writers wrestle with the place of theory and autobiography in their many lived and artistic practices—often to ambivalent effect.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
This archive is open-ended and intuitive, scrupulous and rooted as much in scholarly research and sober reflection as in gut-based understanding and critico-synchronistic happenstance.
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
that reveal the entanglement of research and creation,
Lauren Fournier • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Most simply, the term refers to the integration of theory and philosophy with autobiography, the body, and other so-called personal and explicitly subjective modes.