Krasny, Elke and Lara Perry. ‘Introduction.’ In Curating with Care, edited by Elke Krasny and Lary Perry, 1-10, London: Routledge, 2023.

The word ‘care’ is becoming as present in the vocabulary of contemporary art and culture as has the word ‘curating’. While some may suspect this upward trend in use reflects mere fashionability, we demonstrate in this book that its prevalence in contemporary curatorial practice should be understood as a response to a dual crisis: the persistent crisis of social and ecological care that characterizes global politics and the more recent professional crisis of curating. The convergence of these two developments has resulted in both a call for ‘curating care’ – an invitation to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life – and a call for more ‘caring curating’ – a change in the practices of curating to foreground caregiving as framed through social and political analysis.

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Krasny, Elke and Lara Perry. ‘Against Sexual Violence in the Museum. Art, Curating, and Activism.’ Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 2022, 7(2).

Depictions of sexual violence are frequently found in the collections and displays of art museums, and material that represents and affirms violence against women often is displayed unchallenged. This article poses questions about how the presence of this material has been addressed in the relations between feminist activism against sexual violence, art made by artists responding to and participating in feminist activism, and the curatorial activities that have arisen to address the challenges that these activities present to art museums. The chapter investigates the 2021 exhibition Titian: Women, Myth and Power at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and its handling of themes of rape in the central exhibit, Titian’s Rape of Europa; the history of themes of rape in feminist art since the 1970s and in exhibitions of this art that have taken place in museums in the last two decades; and curatorial engagements with sexual violence and rape in recent art exhibitions in the US and in the UK. The article argues that new strategies for the presentation and interpretation of artworks dealing with sexual violence are needed for museums to redress the patriarchal and colonial presence of sexual violence in their collection.

Scales of Concern. Feminist Spatial Practices.

Elke Krasny, “Scales of Concern. Feminist Spatial Practices.” In: Empowerment. Art and Feminisms, edited by Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, Uta Ruhsam, 2022

There is no space without concern. There is no space without care. There is no space without worry. Without concern there is no space. Without care there is no space. Without worry there is no space. These observations are the starting points o feminist spatial practices. Concern suffuses the corporeal, spatial, and material world, which is the same world that suffuses thinking and feeling life with concerns.

Krasny, Elke. ‘Care Trouble. Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture.’ 2022

Krasny, Elke. ‘Care Trouble. Thinking through gendered entanglements in architecture.’ In Women Architects and Politics. Intersections between Gender, Power Structures and Architecture in the Long 20th Century, edited by Mary Pepchinski and Christina Budde, 27- 46, Bielefeld: transcript, 2022.

Is architecture a form of care? How to think, practice, build and write architecture
as care? The following ref lections are indebted to my growing concern
that architecture today, very much dominated by the form-follows-capital
mantra, must be more fully understood as a care practice. A closer look
reveals that there is virtually no limit to care in architecture. This includes
architecture in all its different phases and stages, from the organisation of
shared work in an architectural office to the completion of a building, from
interactions with clients and contractors to labor conditions on construction
sites, from considerations of material f lows in architecture to maintaining
or repairing existing buildings, from educating future architects to writing
about architecture.

Krasny, Elke. ‘Implicated in Care. Haunted by Protection. The Violence of Stone and Bronze Bodies.” 2022

Krasny, Elke. ‘Implicated in Care. Haunted by Protection. The Violence of Stone and Bronze Bodies.” 2022In Infrastructural Love: Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems, edited by Hélène Frichot et al, 113-119, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022.

While one can argue that water, sewage, or power are essential to human survival and that bronze and stone bodies are not es-sential in quite the same way, seeing them as infrastructural components of public urban environments is helpful in under-standing how these bodies configure a dis-tinctly modern system that renders those considered makers of History permanently present.

Attika-Figuren vom Parlamentsdach bereit zum Abtransport

Architektur als Infrastruktur des Sorgetragens, Building Bildung Perspektiven baukultureller Vermittlung, Gelsenkirchen, November 17, 2022

Der Vortrag Architektur als Infrastruktur des Sorgetragens: an einem anderen Architekturverständnis arbeiten war ein Beitrag zu dem Panel Haltung. Die Fragen nach der Haltung in der Architektur wurde an Hand der folgenden Fragen erörtert: Wie verändert der Wandel der am Bau beteiligten Berufe hin zu mehr Diversität die Baukulturvermittlung? Welche Haltung ist für einen baukulturellen Dialog in Schule und Studium zukunftsfähig?

Programm

Recording

Architecture of Radical Care/Architektura radykalnej troika, November 16, 2022

An online debate on Architecture of Radical Care organized and hosted by Narodowy Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki

Dorota Lesniak and Elke Krasny in conversation on complicated, complex, and urgent questions: What is care, and what is architecture of care in the age of the Anthropocene? What has capitalism done to care work? What needs to change in our thinking about architecture in order for buildings to gain the potential to regenerate the planet? Can architects become essential workers? What aspects of architecture practise should be strengthen?

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Krasny, Elke. ‘#Climate Feminism.’ How:// Do We Speak #Feminism?// New Global Challenges – A Glossary, FKW 70 (2022)

Krasny, Elke. ‘#Climate Feminism.’ How:// Do We Speak #Feminism?// New Global Challenges – A Glossary, FKW 70 (2022)

Vanessa Nakate, an 18-year-old Ugandan climate justice activist
who spoke at the COP 26 in 2021, states on Twitter that “Climate
Justice is Gender Justice”. Nakate writes: “There is so much to
learn about the climate crisis, and learning about the climate crisis
means learning from the voices that are on the front lines. We can’t
have climate justice if voices from the most affected areas are being
left behind” (Nakate 2021). A vast array of climate activist organizations
– such as GirlsClimateActionJamaica and Youth4Nature, to
name just two – womyn, girls, queer, trans, non-binary, and gender
non-conforming persons are the driving forces of the environmental
movement in the twenty-first century.
Our planet, the shared home of billions

Das moderne Museum als Anthropozän-Institution

Elke Krasny
Das moderne Museum als Anthropozän-Institution
Für feministisches Kuratieren im Zeitalter des Massensterbens

Trauerarbeit und Zukunftssorge: Für Feministisches Kuratieren im Zeitalter des Massensterbens vertritt die These, dass das moderne Museum als Institution aufzufassen ist, anhand derer wir die Entstehung der Kultur des Anthropozäns untersuchen und nachvollziehen können. Das moderne Museum repräsentiert die Art und Weise, wie das Anthropozän Leben und Tod neu organisierte und regulierte. Auf Logiken von Gewalt, Raub und Enteignung beruhend, wird das, was das Museum gesammelt hat, als Totes konserviert und als Nicht-Mehr-Lebendiges zur Schau gestellt. Dies ist Ausdruck jener machtvollen Denksysteme und Ideologien, die das Anthropozän bestimmten: menschlicher Exzeptionalismus, Suprematie, Beherrschbarkeit der Natur. Das Buch schlägt vor, das Museum als einen Ort zu sehen, der durch feministische kuratorische Trauerarbeit die Kultur des Anthropozän einsichtig und spürbar macht und zugleich an kulturellen Imaginarien arbeitet, die andere Formen der Zukunftssorge praktizieren.

Frei verfügbarer Volltext: KPP57_Krasny.pdf

Kunstpädagogische Positionen, Heft 57. Erschienen: 2022
Schlagwörter: Museum, Feminismus, Anthropozaen, Trauerarbeit, Kuratieren
ISBN (Print): 978-3-943694-36-9

CRITICAL CARE. ARCHITECTURE FOR A BROKEN PLANET
Exhibition at the Flanders Architecture Institute

Critical Care. Architecture for a Broken Planet 
Flanders Architecture Institute, J. V. Rijswijcklaan 155, 2018 Antwerpen
Exhibition: 28 May 2022 – 11 September 2022

A planet in crisis. The earth in intensive care. Man-made environmental and social catastrophes are threatening to render the planet uninhabitable. The situation is critical and, dominated by the interests of capital, architecture and urbanism are caught up in the crisis. The exhibition Critical Care shows how architecture and urbanism can contribute to repairing the future and keeping the planet and its inhabitants alive. After stops in Vienna, Zürich, Dresden and Berlin Critical Care is on showcase in De Singel, Antwerp

Critical Care, an exhibition of the Architekturzentrum Wien, is an appeal for a new approach, for a caring architecture and urbanism. 21 current examples from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and Latin America prove that architecture and urban development do not have to be subservient to the dictates of capital and the exploitation of resources and labour.

In this space, you can see two exhibitions coming together. Critical Care: Architecture for a Broken Planet (an exhibition by Architekturzentrum Wien) is laid out across the walls and Care for Space for Care: Scenes from Flanders and Brussels is positioned in the rooms at the centre of the exhibitionhall. Critical Care offers a framework to understand the role of care in architecture with examples from around the world, while Care for Space for Care provides insight into the local context with clues about the spatial experience of nine projects.
Care for Space for Care explores how care and architecture can nurture each other. The spaces we live in can care for us and our planet, while we also take care of them. With this continuous loop, caring can become one of the inherent characteristics of architectural design.

DATE: 28.05.2022 – 11.09.2022
LOCATION: De Singel (Expo)
ADDRESS: Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp (BE)
PRODUCER: Flanders Architecture Institute and De Singel
EXHIBITION CONCEPT: Architekturzentrum Wien
CURATORS: Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Alexander Ach Schuh