Feminist Ways of Knowing: From Objective to Embodied Knowledge
New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival
Free event, admission on a first come first served basis
A screening and discussion programmed in collaboration with Res.
Donna Haraway’s concept of “situated knowledge” challenges patriarchal claims to scientific objectivity and universalism. Instead, she suggests, everything we “know” stems from the particular circumstances of our lives.
Featuring a screening by Zadie Xa, the discussion will begin with Xa’s provocation that selfhood is a specific yet hybrid set of cultural references. Xa draws on Korean shamanism and folklore, music, digital space, fashion, and art history as well as her experiences within Asian diaspora.
Convened by Res., Xa, Isabel de Sena and Annie Goh discuss what ‘knowledge’ is valued and what counts as ‘technology’. From accelerationism to algorithmic governance, notions of ‘rationalism’ and ‘objectivity’ are gaining influence. In this context, how are mystical technologies and indigenous knowledges reclaiming space?
Zadie Xa is an artist exploring the overlapping and conflation of cultures that inform self-conceptualized identities and notions of self.
Isabel de Sena is an independent curator and writer working at the intersection of feminist technoscience and art.
Annie Goh is an artist and researcher in sound studies, archaeoacoustics, feminism, decoloniality and Science Technology Studies.
Artwork by Cecilia Serafini
Part of Life Rewired
Fountain Room
Location
The Fountain Room is located on Level G.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
We’ve plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus
The Fountain Room is on the ground floor level of the Barbican.
From the Silk Street entrance, go over the bridge and turn right across the ground floor foyer.
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