ABSTRACT
Feminist worlds: re-imagining community and publics makes a feminist analysis of public- and community-engaged art, including forms of social practice or participatory art, a prevalent form of contemporary art. It contextualises and critiques this approach by reference to historical feminist theory and artwork, and contributes new perspectives through close readings of a diverse set of works that extend and complicate ideas of community and the public, and that affirm the activist nature of spatial interventions. Artists and curatorial projects discussed include Australians Angelica Mesiti, Bianca Hester, Deborah Kelly, Cigdem Aydemir and Nathalie Thomas (as Natty Solo), with international counterparts Lhola Amira (South Africa), Marisa Williamson (US), Nona Faustine (US) and Teresa Margolles (Mexico).
