PhD in Practice by JJ

The PhD-in-Practice is a doctoral program for research in artistic practice, set up by the Institute of Fine Arts and the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies. The program provides participants with the opportunity to pursue their individual research projects in a collective environment with a strongly trans-disciplinary and international focus. It provides a concept of arts-based research built upon critical epistemologies, as developed in the context of feminist, queer, postcolonial, ecological, post-Marxist and other political and emancipatory projects.

OLA HASSANAIN

Back and Forth: Space, Policies, and Women

Ola Hassanain’s work examines the dynamics by which state policies regulate perceptions of gender experience in public space. The project Back and Forth: Space, Policies, and Women will attempt to develop phases to in the research that imagine policy in the form of a public “spatial conversation” and thus, shift the site of policy creation from the private to public sphere. This shift aims to mediate active roles for those affected by existing policies in imagining new possibilities of political dialogue. The project zooms in on NGOs as an example of policy-making spaces that use echo the ‘state’ through their reductive aesthetic representations, notably in gender-oriented publications, to also shape perceptions of gender. This research will attempt to stage a counter-strategy of exchange with NGOs, which re-articulates the hegemonic relations and narratives between gender, space, and policy.

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Back and Forth: Space, Policies, and Women