Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and WLAG (Write Like a Grrrl) are launching a series of meetings about women’s writing using autotheory. This series is open to all, but is mainly focused on women who are artists, writers, and interdisciplinary researchers from ethnic republics and/or from ethnicities not represented by territorial units.
The literary canon has long been subject to criticism for its West-centricity and masculinity, but texts written outside these criteria largely continue to be excluded from it. The presenters of this series of meetings propose discussing how to work with texts in order to highlight them and overcome the mechanisms of these social orders, including in the field of art criticism. Particular attention will be paid to feminist and decolonialist optics of textual analysis.
Public meetings will take place weekly from April 11 to May 2, with four meetings planned. The timetable of themes will be published in advance for the entire program and discussion participants will be announced no less than two weeks in advance of the event.