Launch of Feminist Art Practices of Co-Existences

Margarida Brito Alves is an Associate Professor at NOVA/FCSH – Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She coordinates NOVA/FCSH´s Artistic Studies Autonomous Section, besides being the coordinator of the PhD in Art History and the vice-coordinator of the PhD in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations. Additionally, she is an integrated researcher at the Art History Institute – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST, where she coordinates the research line on ‘Spatial Practices in Contemporary Art’. Her research, in the field of Contemporary Art History and Artistic Studies, is more specifically focused on two areas: ‘Art, Architecture, and the City’, and ‘Art, Research and Education’.

Rose Brander (born Leeds, UK) lives in Olsfors and works in Gothenburg. In 2014 Rose moved to Sweden to study a masters degree in Fine Art at HDK-Valand. She is currently the PARSE Project Coordinator.

Rose is invested in creating spaces, discussions and events, often working collaboratively. Common research threads within her own work include our relationship to the environment and climate, the more than human, critical pedagogies and how we organize ourselves and each other by attending to storytelling, listening and subjectivities.

Paula Chambers is an artist, academic and arts educator. She has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions Inconvenient Bodies at Hošek Contemporary in Berlin, Working Girls at The Whitaker, and Not at Home at the Art House, Wakefield. In June 2023 she undertook Material Nomads: a feral artist intervention for Momentum 12 in Moss, Norway. Paula is Subject Leader for Sculpture on BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. She has presented at national and international conferences on feminism, contemporary art and the domestic, is co-editor of the book Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Material Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine. She has chapters included in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, and in An Artist and a Mother. Also, journal articles published in the journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and in Performance/Research Journal (special issue On the Maternal).

Professor Catherine Dormor is a practising artist, writer and academic whose research focuses on the ways in which textile practices and structures can become vehicles for thinking about what it means to be in community. She takes a feminist approach to community, in which care, compassion and the ethics of the individual become focal points for art-making and art-thinking. She is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of College: Design, Creative and Digital Industries at the University of Westminster, London, leading a large team across a range of creative disciplines within which learning and teaching are spaces for mutual engagement and understanding.

Marta Branco Guerreiro is an art historian and museologist based in Lisbon and affiliated with Instituto de História da Arte of Nova FCSH / In2Past. She graduated in Art History and has a Master in Museology from NOVA FCSH. She is a PhD student in Art History with the doctoral project “The Museum as a common space. Thinking beyond participation”, focusing on participatory curatorship and collaboration projects with communities.  She works at Banco de Arte Contemporânea, an archive of contemporary art based in Lisbon. Her current interests are: the commons, situated knowledges, ecology and museums as spaces of care.

Jessica studied Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Her PhD, awarded by the University of Edinburgh is published under the title Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth (kalliope paperbacks: 2008). She is editor of In the Loop: Knitting Now (Black Dog: 2010), The Textile Reader (Berg: 2012 / second edition Bloomsbury: 2023) and author of Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury: 2012). Her editorial and curatorial project Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury: 2015) was accompanied by a travelling exhibition Migrations (2015–17).

Jessica edited PARSE Journal issue 18 Thinking in Motion and co-edited issue 19 Powers of Love with Jyoti Mistry, issue 15 Violence: materiality with Ole Lützow-Holm and issue 11 Intersections with Kristina Hagström-Ståhl and Jyoti Mistry. Recent writing includes the Afterword to Humanitarian Handicrafts: History, Materiality, Trade (Manchester University Press: 2024), “Toward a Minor Textile Architecture” in Entangled Histories of Art and Migration (Intellect: 2024) and “Crafting Extremes in Andreas Eschbach’s The Hair-Carpet Weavers” in Text/Techne (Bloomsbury: forthcoming). From 2020-2023 she was the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands and is currently Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and Professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

She was PARSE Editor-in-Chief during 2024 and 2025.

Dr Alexandra Kokoli is a feminist art historian and educator, who works as Associate Professor in Fine Art and Contextual Studies at Middlesex University and Senior Research Associate at the VIAD Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. She has published widely, including the books Feminism Reframed; The Provisional Texture of Reality (with Susan Hiller); The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice; and Art into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin (with Deborah Cherry). She is currently researching icons and iconoclasms in intersectional feminist politics.

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Katarzyna Laskowska is an artist, designer, and researcher. She studied at the Sorbonne University – Paris IV and the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan. She is a professor of Art & Design at Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts of Poznan and a visiting professor at TEC and Centro CENTRO Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City. Her current artistic and research interests are, among others, the common ground of communication, slow movement in artistic and everyday experience, the epistemology of small living spaces, experimental use of soft materials and embroidery as an art medium, the concept of reuse, and everyday attributes. 

Małgorzata Markiewicz, born, lives and works in Krakow, Poland. Assistant Professor at University of Educational Commission Krakow. She graduated form Fine Arts Academy in Krakow, Poland, got her PHD in 2015. Markiewicz was a participant of PHD students Seminar Philosophies at KTH and at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Presented her works at: The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK, l’étrangère, London, UK, Park Rzeźby na Bródnie, MSN, Warsaw, Poland, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, Matadero, Madrid, Spain, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Poland. Author of the Women’s Curtain at Słowacki Theatre in Krakow. www.malgorzatamarkiewicz.com.pl

Anna Markowska is an art historian, critic, and curator who leads the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Wrocław and serves as vice president of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Wrocław and the editorial board of the art magazine “Widok.” From 2018 to 2022, she was on the board of the Polish section of the Association of Art Critics (AICA).

Rebecca Mayo is a Senior lecturer at the School of Art & Design, Australian National University. Her PhD, Labours of Care: Art and Ecological Restoration, examined how an art practice founded on print and textiles can produce artworks that manifest through—and reveal—practices, possibilities and limitations of care. Her current research cultivates these concerns through gardening and circular practices. Exhibitions include Habitus (Heide Museum of Modern Art) 2017 and CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), during the Vienna Biennale for Change, 2021 and the 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial in 2026.

https://rebeccamayo.com

https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/people/dr-rebecca-mayo

Ana Pérez-Quiroga is a visual artist, performer, and filmmaker whose work maps everyday life as a field of politics, intimacy, and collective memory. Ana holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art from the University of Coimbra, an MA from the University of Évora, and a BA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, as well as completing the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Ar.Co. Currently an integrated researcher at CHAIA — Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, University of Évora — her practice spans installation, textiles, film, performance, and objects, weaving identity, gender, post-memory, and strategies of awareness.

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Basia Sliwinska is Researcher at the Institute of Art History of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Founding Editor of Taylor&Francis journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: COSMOS. Her work is situated within feminist art history, theory, and practice, focusing on visual activism and artivism towards gender and environmental equity within transnational global frameworks.

Biography coming soon

Dominika Łabądź – artist, curator and academic, born in Mielec, lives and works in Wrocław and Szczecin. Graduated in 2009, PhD in 2021 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She works at the intersection of disciplines. Co-founder and active in artistic collectives and initiatives in Wrocław: U Gallery (2009-2015), 69 Seconds to Escape (2012-2013), Common Space – Social Archive (2016-2017), ArtBrut Gallery (2020-2022). Currently, together with Joanna Synowiec, she is developing the publishing house Dzikie Przyjemności (Wild Pleasures). She has participated in national and international group exhibitions. Author of several solo shows and projects. Assistant professor at the Department of Media Arts, Photography and Experimental Film at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.

https://www.dominikalabadz.com/