Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten, and Dorthe Staunæs. ‘Race Matters in Intersectional Feminisms. Towards a Danish Grammar Book’. (2020)

Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten, and Dorthe Staunæs. ‘Race Matters in Intersectional Feminisms. Towards a Danish Grammar Book’. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 28, no. 3, July 2020, pp. 224–236.

In this article, we ask: “how does race matter when working with intersectional feminism in a postcolonial Nordic context?” We take our cue from feminist and postcolonial scholars who have pointed out that minoritisation and majoritisation processes in the Nordic area are entangled in ongoing racialization processes. Working with and around the video installation Black Magic at the White House by the artist Jeanette Ehlers, we hold on to the particularities of racialization processes in the Danish context, as well as their insertion in a global racial ontology. We establish a conversation between Ehlers’ installation and the work of two black American scholars from the humanities: Sylvia Wynter and Hortense Spillers. These scholars have not been influential in the European uptake and further elaboration of intersectionality, but we argue that engaging with their work opens up a perspective that focuses on affect, absence and disappearance rather than only representation, identity and recognition, thereby worlding intersectionality differently than standpoint theory. Experience is also constituted through affective encounters, the ephemeral, forgotten and bypassed qualities and intensities. We conclude the article by drawing a preliminary sketch of elements in what we, paraphrasing Spillers, call a Danish “grammar book” of the racialized and gendered ordering of the human that again complicates the stories we may tell about how race matters and what Nordic intersectional feminism may look like, as well as the interventions this may open up.

doi:10.1080/08038740.2020.1758206.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2020.1758206.

Danbolt, Mathias. ‘Striking Reverberations: Beating Back the Unfinished History of the Colonial Aesthetic with Jeannette Ehlers’ Whip It Good’. (2016) [PDF]

Danbolt, Mathias. ‘Striking Reverberations: Beating Back the Unfinished History of the Colonial Aesthetic with Jeannette Ehlers’ Whip It Good’. in Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories, Eds. Amelia Jones and Erin Silver, Manchester University Press, 2016.

PDF: https://www.academia.edu/16462395/Striking_Reverberations_Beating_Back_the_Unfinished_History_of_the_Colonial_Aesthetic_with_Jeannette_Ehlers_Whip_it_Good.

Cramer, Nina. ‘Hvad Bliver Synligt i Tomrummet?: Kritiske Fabulationer Og Video-Vodou i Jeannette Ehlers’ Black Magic at the White House’. (2018) [PDF]

Cramer, Nina. ‘Hvad Bliver Synligt i Tomrummet?: Kritiske Fabulationer Og Video-Vodou i Jeannette Ehlers’ Black Magic at the White House’. Kunst Og Kultur, vol. 101, Oct. 2018, pp. 133–148.

Denne artikel undersøger omhyggeligt udarbejdede lakuner i Jeannette Ehlers’ videoværk Black Magic at the White House (2009). Her udgør det visuelle felt på én gang en arena for kunstnerkroppens udviskning og stedet, hvor en konfrontation med kolonihistoriske udeladelser finder sted. Artiklen argumenterer for, at dette opnås gennem en fabulerende kunstnerisk praksis, hvor grænserne mellem det autentiske og inautentiske utydeliggøres.

doi:10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2018-03-02.

PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328435281_Hvad_bliver_synligt_i_tomrummet_Kritiske_fabulationer_og_video-vodou_i_Jeannette_Ehlers%27_Black_Magic_at_the_White_House.