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Queer feminism, intersectionality and awkward conversations

2017

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Courtney Coombs, “Queer feminism, intersectionality and awkward conversations”, Artlink, 37:4, (2017): 56–61. 

Description

Queer feminism proposes a position that moves beyond identifying, outing and eliminating women’s oppression to expand the focus to the structures that enable oppression. As outlined by Dore Bowen, “While feminism is aligned with lesbian and gay politics in seeking liberation from oppressions based on gender and sexual identity, queer theory challenges the norms that constitute these identities.” Going beyond gender and sexuality, queer politics also advocates for “all kinds of economic, political, epistemological, and cultural experiments that seek to produce difference and equality at the same time.” In this way, queer feminism is intersectional at its core, and can broaden our understanding of the world and creative practices that seek to break down more than the walls of gender-based oppression.

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Courtney Coombs

Courtney Coombs makes art, writes, and facilitates to make sense of the world and their place in it. They are heavily influenced by situations and captivated by the relational. Employing queer-centric, anti-spectacular methodologies, they privilege periods of observing, thinking, feeling, learning, and unlearning as much as realising a final form, which often involves reimagining everyday encounters. Driven by concepts and seduced by the potential of uncertainty and ambiguity, their minimally presented liaisons include objects, installations, 2-dimensional works, moving images and sound, discourse, dialogue, and community building. Coombs imbues these subjective and gestural propositions with a hopeful criticality concerned with disrupting dominant narratives about worth and value and prompting different ways of seeing, understanding and being. Coombs is currently based between Norway and Australia. They have exhibited throughout Australia and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions include: *Diamonds in the sky*, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney (with Jordan Azcune) (2021), *I can't sleep when I'm anxious*, CARPARK Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2020), *The time of light*, Metro Arts, Brisbane (2020); and *Field of Vision*, IMA Belltower, Brisbane (2019). Coombs has been the recipient of several awards, including the Australia Council for the Arts Resilience: Adapt Grant (2020), Australia Council for the Arts Development Grant (2018, 2017, 2016), Arts Queensland Queensland Arts Showcase Program Grant (2016), Australia Council for the Arts Arts Projects Grant (2016), Arts Queensland Individuals Fund Grant (2020, 2015), Australia Council for the Arts Early Career New Work Grant (2013). They have attended national and international residency programs and was recently awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Helsinki International Artist Programme Residency (2020). Their work is held in public and private collections.

Frances Barrett

Frances Barrett (b. 1983) is an artist who lives and works in Narrm Melbourne, whose recent work pivots around the modalities of listening and vocality. Barrett's projects take the form of immersive sound installation, live performances and video installation. Such projects include: *Cry* for *The National 4: Australian Art Now*, Carriageworks, 2023; *Meatus*, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2022; and *All Ears: A Listening Party*, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2018. In 2019 Barrett was one of the recipients of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship, a unique fellowship for women working across performance and installation. Barrett is one member of the collective Barbara Cleveland (with Diana Baker Smith, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley) who have presented projects at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and Hayward Gallery. In 2020 Barbara Cleveland presented their first survey exhibition, *Thinking Business*, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Barrett was the Chair of the Curatorial Advisory Board for VERS: On Pleasures, Embodiment, Kinships, Fugitivity and Re/Organising, an event focused on queer practices presented by Monash University Museum of Art, Samstag Museum of Art and Ace Open. Barrett is currently a Lecturer in Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture.
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