Is it possible to make Ethical Dialogical Art? The ethical implications of applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work with Dialogue-based Community Art.

Abstract

I am a white, non-binary, crip, and queer person with mixed european minority heritage, raised as part of the rural Swedish working class. My understanding of the world is defined by this background as well as by my time as a gender scholar and in art school. To state this is to position myself to the knowledge I am hereby trying to produce: as a person from the margins this is also where I continue to position myself and my art, in connection to the American professor, social activist, and author bell hooks’ notion of the margin as a place for radical openness. In this text I present my current ideas on how applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work in Socially Engaged Art is a radical opening towards new, cooperative knowledge, and especially when working with dialogue-based art. In conjunction with these ideas, this essay questions what the ethical implications of engaging with such work might be.