The Future of Modernist Risk: Chris Kraus at the Limits of Global Art. Issue 101 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moody, Alys
• Is Part Of: Australian feminist studies. Volume 34:Issue 101(2019)
• Page Start: 343
• Page End: 361
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Chris Kraus -- world art -- global art -- modernism -- futurity -- reproduction; Feminism -- Periodicals; Feminism -- Australia -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Australia -- Periodicals; 305.42
• DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1679017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0816-4649

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines Chris Kraus's work, especially her 2016 short story 'Face' and her 2006 novel Torpor, to argue that women's engagement with modernism returns in global art as a risk, bound up with the material inequalities produced by globalisation. It shows how, in Kraus's work, the legacies of modernism, the production of 'backwardness', and the exclusion of reproductive labour together generate an uneven temporality for the global, whereby futurity becomes anachronistic. It concludes by suggesting that 'Face' provides the outlines of an alternate global art, premised in the embrace of risky exchanges between women.