On the Issue of Belonging: Thinking through Networks and Generations Meeting in the Suite Royal of the Odin Teatret with Helen Varley Jamieson, the webqueen of the Magdalena Project
This contribution discusses the issue of belonging in relation to the creation of artists’ communities, networks and generations. Written from a particular position of a woman artist/scholar engaged in both professional performance practice and practice as research academic culture, this contribution is a working through of a momentary politics of belonging to a generation. It posits the interview with Helen Varley Jamieson, the webqueen of the Magdalena Project, as a premise through which such questions of belonging are posed. Through this contribution I am concerned to address the particularities of multiple belongings, which are open, temporary and generative rather than exclusive
