Short Abstract:

The panel explores unwriting as feminist curatorial research through queer and decolonial walking that pays attention to infrastructural injustice. Through 'walking with’, it reimagines hegemonic infrastructures and challenges colonial, patriarchal and neoliberal logics of knowledge production.

Long Abstract:

The panel explores unwriting as a form of feminist curatorial research and infrastructural critique through queer and decolonial walking practices. Drawing on the posthuman and materialist method of "walking with" (Sundberg, 2014), this practice is complemented by feminist curating, understood as a relational and caring process that fosters transformative social and environmental encounters (Ecologies of Care). It examines how walking as feminist research reimagines hegemonic infrastructures in urban spaces and landscapes shaped by the Anthropocene, highlighting the "infrastructural injustice as experienced when walking" (Krasny/Lingg/Lomoschitz, 2024).

Curatorial feminist walking events are understood as embodied and care-ful research and collective knowledge creation that challenge infrastructural injustice while critiquing the colonial, patriarchal and neoliberal logics of knowledge production embedded in unjust landscapes. Reflecting on the legacy of the colonial explorer and the White flâneur, walking with focuses on how "walking and the senses produce gendered, racialized, and classed bodies” (Springgay/Truman, 2018), countering the objectifying, extractivist and controlling ways in which landscapes, bodies, and movements are traditionally recorded.

Rather than accumulating observations for discretely authored writing projects, the panel aims to discuss feminist curatorial walking with as interdependent, material, and embodied knowledge creation. It invites to reflect what it means to write, rewrite unwrite through curatorial "moving constellations" (Krasny/ Lingg/ Lomoschitz 2024: 168) with an inquiry to ethical and political concerns for “the lively relationalities of becoming of which we are a part” (Barad, 2007, p. 303).

This Panel has so far received 3 paper proposal(s).
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