Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media—Contingent curation, archival activism, frictional relations

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reflecting on the curation of the online exhibition ‘Forms Voices Networks: Feminism and the Media’, this article explores how a ‘contingent’ curatorial practice might enact a decolonial and feminist engagement with history. Discussing archival absences, the use of digital space, and how to represent global feminist histories, the article considers whether curation can resist, and imagine beyond, modernity’s colonial and patriarchal forms of knowledge production. Exploring a strategy of bringing diverse feminist stories into dialogue, it suggests feminist curation may entail creating sites of relation and potentiality, where material encounters can continue to engender routes for imagining history otherwise.