Natalya Antonova is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Gender Studies (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna). Her major field of inquiry is critical cultural studies in art and craft praxis. Natalya’s research interests include Marxist-Feminist philosophies and epistemologies, political economy of art-craft labour, critical histories and theories of art-craft practices, post-state socialisms and post-soviet capitalist economies, social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis. In her doctoral research, Natalya explores how practitioners work in the conundrum between the market and non-market practices/values – i.e. the production of cultural goods for the globalised art system vis-à-vis the (co)production of activist merchandise as a means to achieve political and economic goals in situ. During the research seminar Narrating Art and Feminism, one of Natalya’s goals will be to examine how the clash of multiple interdependencies between artists-crafters and their commissioners, artists-crafters and the institutions they work with, artists-crafters and the researchers they choose to collaborate with, shape our understanding of political economies and histories of feminist art.
Email: Antonova_Natalya@phd.ceu.edu