Abstract
2013 marked the centenary celebration of the suffragettes’ fight for the right to vote in parliamentary elections in Norway. The article “Breaking the Waves: Tuning into Queer History with FRANK’s Voluspå” analyses the Norwegian queer feminist platform FRANK’s response to the centenary, which included the artist book Voluspå (2013) and the exhibition Marie Høeg Meets Klara Lidén (2013–14), where photographs by the Norwegian suffragette and photographer Marie Høeg (1866-1949) were brought in dialogue with Swedish contemporary artist Klara Lidén. Through an analysis of FRANK’s “performative historiography,” the article discusses the value of revisiting one of feminist history’s most central narrative figures: the wave metaphor. With inspiration from feminist theorists including Clare Hemmings, Ednie Kaeh Garrison, and Tina Campt, the article suggests the importance of recalibrating the wave metaphor from an oceanic to an auditive register, as this opens up for a model of historical engagement attuned to the politics of affective dissonances and resonances across time and place.
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