This episode is in English, but the interview of Fatima Daas is in French. If you would like to hear the dubbed version, you can find it under Episode 12 ENG. 

This episode is in English, but the interview of Fatima Daas is in French. If you would like to hear the dubbed version, you can find it under Episode 12 ENG. 

We discuss the historical links between art history, craft, and feminism and queer politics. At the end, a few audience members share their experience with craft and how they came to it. 

In this episode, we discuss how to integrate the wins of feminism in our cultural institutions and programmes with Author and Researcher Reine Prat . Her book « Exploser le Plafont : précis de féminisme à l’usage du monde de la culture » is a guide for cultural institutions, programmers, and makers, to feminist ideas into their work. We also discuss the work of her partner, Nathalie Magnan, who was a pioneer in bringing feminism and cultural studies to France.

This is part 1 of our series on feminist cultural Institutions. In March, we will discuss this question with Jude Law, creator of the Women of the World Festival, ahead of the Institute’s own feminist festival, the Women Shaping the World Festival. 

Reine Prat is a Literature Scholar worked as an inspector for the French Ministry of Culture. She was a pioneer in bringing feminist questions to cultural institutions, with two ground-breaking reports on gender equality in the Arts and Culture, that she published in 2006 and 2009. She has now left the Ministry and still fights for gender equality in the cultural world, alongside working to preserve and promote the work of her late-partner, Nathalie Magnan.

Link to the Nathalie Magnan archives: https://www.archivesdelacritiquedart.org/isadg_fondsdarchives/fr-aca-nmagn :
Link to the films of Nathalie Magnan, and recorded lectures on her work https://archive.org/details/@de_la_mule_au_web 

In this episode, we discuss how to integrate the wins of feminism in our cultural institutions and programmes with Author and Researcher Reine Prat . Her book « Exploser le Plafont : précis de féminisme à l’usage du monde de la culture » is a guide for cultural institutions, programmers, and makers, to feminist ideas into their work. We also discuss the work of her partner, Nathalie Magnan, who was a pioneer in bringing feminism and cultural studies to France.

This is part 1 of our series on feminist cultural Institutions. In March, we will discuss this question with Jude Law, creator of the Women of the World Festival, ahead of the Institute’s own feminist festival, the Women Shaping the World Festival. 

Reine Prat is a Literature Scholar worked as an inspector for the French Ministry of Culture. She was a pioneer in bringing feminist questions to cultural institutions, with two ground-breaking reports on gender equality in the Arts and Culture, that she published in 2006 and 2009. She has now left the Ministry and still fights for gender equality in the cultural world, alongside working to preserve and promote the work of her late-partner, Nathalie Magnan.

Link to the Nathalie Magnan archives: https://www.archivesdelacritiquedart.org/isadg_fondsdarchives/fr-aca-nmagn :
Link to the films of Nathalie Magnan, and recorded lectures on her work https://archive.org/details/@de_la_mule_au_web 

In December, we talked to Array Collective about creating in a group and finding strength in exploring with others. For the start of 2022, we continue exploring this theme with French feminist radical group Gang of Witches. Two members of the gang join us: Founder and Visual Artist Paola Hivelin, and Podcast Host Sabrine Kasbaoui. 

We discuss how living in a welcoming community, with shares values and goals of deconstruction, helps members to feel empowered in becoming themselves, in creating more radically, understanding the ways they have integrated capitalist and patriarcal values. We also talk about the myth of the lone genius as a masculinist and capitalist creation, which itself needs to be unrooted and deconstructed, and the challenges it represents for female artists.

Recorded remotely from France and Ibiza. 

In December, we talked to Array Collective about creating in a group and finding strength in exploring with others. For the start of 2022, we continue exploring this theme with French feminist radical group Gang of Witches. Two members of the gang join us: Founder and Visual Artist Paola Hivelin, and Podcast Host Sabrine Kasbaoui. 

We discuss how living in a welcoming community, with shares values and goals of deconstruction, helps members to feel empowered in becoming themselves, in creating more radically, understanding the ways they have integrated capitalist and patriarcal values. We also talk about the myth of the lone genius as a masculinist and capitalist creation, which itself needs to be unrooted and deconstructed, and the challenges it represents for female artists.

Recorded remotely from France and Ibiza.