Standpoint Autotheory: Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practice

Twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

Standpoint Autotheory encompasses a multitude of manifestations of radically self-reflexive research attitudes. It traces research based artistic practices through twelve contributions that propose a performative integration of the personal within the production of theory and explore the entanglements of subjectivity with criticality aimed at social transformation by questioning dominant epistemologies.

The positions assembled in the book are permeated by different modes of thinking and practice such as autoethnography, practices of the self, auto-historia teoría, standpoint theories, strong objectivity and situated knowledge, self-authority, narrativity and storytelling, radical positioning, performative philosophy, autofiction, thinking-feeling, and other methods that, through the interrogation of embodied experiences, illuminate the connections between the personal and the political, as well as the individual and the communal.

Contributors
Ana de Almeida, Andrea Ancira, Cana Bilir-Meier, Lena Ditte Nissen, Nina Höchtl, Olena Khoroshylova, Sanja Lasić, Mai Ling, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Stephanie Misa, Mariel Rodríguez, Elif Süsler-Rohringer, and Ruth Sonderegger

Copublished by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna