Sophie McCuen-Koytek

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Adrian Julius Tillmann

Sophie McCuen-Koytek (she/her) is an art historian and media scholar. She is currently studying critical studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and working at the Kunstraum Leuphana. In her studies she focuses on art as a feminist and decolonial practice of resistance and (re)creation.

Sessions

Quiet Gestures: Care, Wellness and Looking After as Strategies of Survival and Resistance

Ana Carvalho, Sophie McCuen-Koytek, Sarnt Utamachote, Cornelia Lund

Departing from the limitations of political perspectives on care, we discuss non-hierarchical, non-westernized approaches to caregiving as exemplified in art and music video. Here, care as intimate, reciprocal gesture becomes part of powerful political strategies in decolonial and queer struggles.
Care
Diversity
Feminism
Art & Culture
Stage 3
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Conversation
English
Conference