Katy Deepwell - global dis:connect

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- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
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- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
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Katy Deepwell

Katy is an art critic based in London. She is the founder and editor of KT press (1998-present) and n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1998-2017). She was a professor of contemporary art, theory and criticism at Middlesex University (2013-Feb 2025). She is the editor/author of over 10 books, Conversations on Art, Artworks and Feminism (KT press, 2025), (ed) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz, 2020), a special issue of Arts(MDPI) ‘Beyond/Around Feminist Aesthetics’ (2023).

Feminisms, contemporary art, links and disconnections with world-system theories

This is an issue-based political analysis of the problematics of feminist art criticism, where the focus is on transnational and transgenerational feminisms. This is a story of interruptions, absences, detours and aporia. World-systems theories (e.g. Maria Mies and Immanuel Wallerstein) as theories about capital accumulation provide starting points to describe the diverse locations of feminism around the globe over the last 60 years. The aim is to rethink how feminisms operate as a geo-culture beyond borders and as a travelling concept.

Have a look at Katy’s research poster about her project.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Katy and HERE for her website.