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Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common by Ewa Majewska – book review
Selin Genc reviews Ewa Majewska’s ‘Feminist Antifascism’, and considers Majewska’s inspirational arguments for a “flexible, inclusive and...
Dorothea Tanning and Perilous Childhoods: A series of three instalments
In part I of Selin Genc's series 'Perilious Childhoods,' we focus on Dorothea Tanning's work 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and how Tanning...
Three Exorbitant Acts: Eurovision 2008-2013
Selin Genc takes us on a return trip, economy class, to the Eurovision of the early 00s, where austerity was answered with excessive...
The Art of Letters: Works by Zarina Hashmi and Sophie Calle
See the full article on the Rattlecap. Extract: "From one interior to another, the sheets of paper became a material bridge connecting...
Annette Messager’s Artful Communitas
Annette Messager & the Neolithic Childhood: Radical imaginings of prehistory in the 20th century. See the published version of article...
Book Review: Two Latin American detective novels
Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, and Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro: two new translated books from Charco Press that are quirky,...
Creative Cartographies
In this podcast episode Selin Genc collaborates with Orestis Lepine to interweave prose and music to explore the feeling of vertigo she...
Book review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
Misleading in size and the simplicity of its prose, Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is brutal in its exploration of political violence...
When Feminism and Futurism Collide
Although underrepresented throughout art history, women were innovative and integral to the Futurist movement. See the published version...
Tales and Tongues
Comfortable in her mother tongue, Turkish, Selin Genc wasn’t prepared for how English would creep into her dreams, thoughts and...
Postcards in Isolation 13: Rodin, Bust of Camille Claudel, 1884
Reflecting on the life of Camille Claudel through Rodin’s 1884 bronze bust of the artist, Selin Genc considers her own experience of...
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