theory as liberatory practice
instrumentation | violin, voice, marimba, doublebass
date | 2018
duration | 7-10'
premiere | April 15th, 2018 by Alec Norkey and friends @ his GPD Recital
note | "We must actively work to call attention to the importance of creating a theory that can advance renewed feminist movements, particularly highlighting that theory which seeks to further feminist opposition to sexism, and sexist oppression. Doing this, we necessarily celebrate and value theory that can be and is shared in oral as well as written narrative""Within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, we have already witnessed the commodification of feminist thinking (just as we experience the commodification of blackness) in way that make it seem as though one can partake of the 'good' that these movements produce without any commitment to transformative politics and practice. In this capitalist culture, feminism and feminist theory are fast becoming a commodity that only the privileged can afford."
"Any of us who create feminist theory and feminist writing in academic settings in which we are continually evaluated know that work deemed 'not scholarly' or 'not theoretical' can result in one not receiving deserved recognition and reward"
- bell hooks, "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom"
date | 2018
duration | 7-10'
premiere | April 15th, 2018 by Alec Norkey and friends @ his GPD Recital
note | "We must actively work to call attention to the importance of creating a theory that can advance renewed feminist movements, particularly highlighting that theory which seeks to further feminist opposition to sexism, and sexist oppression. Doing this, we necessarily celebrate and value theory that can be and is shared in oral as well as written narrative""Within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, we have already witnessed the commodification of feminist thinking (just as we experience the commodification of blackness) in way that make it seem as though one can partake of the 'good' that these movements produce without any commitment to transformative politics and practice. In this capitalist culture, feminism and feminist theory are fast becoming a commodity that only the privileged can afford."
"Any of us who create feminist theory and feminist writing in academic settings in which we are continually evaluated know that work deemed 'not scholarly' or 'not theoretical' can result in one not receiving deserved recognition and reward"
- bell hooks, "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom"