A thematic discussion from the DOCU/SYNTHESIS programme with women artists and filmmakers of the programme Her Lens. British Focus

An intersectional feminist perspective calls for attentiveness to the many dimensions of inequality and experiences of oppression, to the voices of marginalized groups and LGBTQI+ communities, and in general, to those who historically have not had a voice or the opportunity to testify to their own truth. Together with British artists, we will discuss how art works with revealing hidden power structures, trauma, and violence in all their forms, including gender-based and structural — class-based and colonial — violence. When does the representation of marginalized groups truly work, and when does it turn into pinkwashing that masks real inequalities? How do archives and remembrance policies reproduce systemic discrimination, and are there tools within art that allow resistance to this? How does the category of the ‘disposable’ sustain inequalities? Can invisible labour undermine inequality?

Participants:
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Jess Stephens

Moderator:
Oksana Dutchak

Oksana Dutchak is a sociologist and social anthropologist based in Kyiv. She is the co-editor of Spilne/Commons Journal and is currently the responsible research officer within the project “Researching the Transnational Organization of Senior Care, Labour and Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe”. Her research interests include: protests, workers' protests, gender inequality, social reproduction, and care labor. Oksana is devoted to engaged and public research, which contributes to public discussion and policies, trying to give a voice to workers and other structurally underprivileged groups.