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Submission Number: 289
Submission ID: 353
Submission UUID: fede7d61-a6aa-46b2-a332-863645cad14b

Created: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 - 06:29
Completed: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 - 07:14
Changed: Wed, 13 May 2026 - 08:51

Remote IP address: 1.146.92.101
Submitted by: Athene Currie
Language: English

Is draft: No
Current page: webform_confirmation

Flagged: Yes
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Athene
Currie
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Méconnaissance: Misrecognition and the Endangered [I]
English
This project is a series of personal recorded rituals employed to reveal a transformation of the ‘I’ and the bodily ego through the tripartite process of separation, transition and reincorporation as evident in a rite of passage. These rituals are performed in nature employing my own body. The works point to the ecofeminist view that women and nature are inextricably linked while referring to posthumanism that seeks to encourage thinking outside of our self-interest, the ‘I’. The project implies that patriarchal constructs imposed upon women are associated with the ‘I’, that is the distinction between the conscious ego which forms the I of the self, and the unconscious of the subject—amounts to what feminist and social theory scholar Kirstin Campbell describes as a “misrecognition” (méconnaissance). I suggest that through ritual, there is an opportunity to recognise the ‘I’ for what it is – imposed. In so doing the concept of the ‘I’ may fall away and provide opportunities for self-transformation.
Athene Currie _Holy Island 2017.jpg
  • Athene Currie is a Dr of Philosophy and academic researcher practicing photography, video and live performance. Drawing upon feminist viewpoints and gender theories her PhD research project Performing the Transformative (2021) addresses transformation and empowerment for women at menopause through rites of passage. The studio outcomes for this research are the live performance Suitcase (2021) and an immersive installation of performance video works. Athene presented at the 2024 Artists of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra with The Un-said: Call and response as a vehicle for the random embodiment of posthuman and ecofeminist concerns through spontaneous performance.
2023 Artists of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference, Griffith University
Misrecognition and {I} Posthumanism, Ecofeminism and the Bodily Ego. No publication of presentation. Abstract published.
Requirements
spoken presentation with projected video artworks
possible short performance if time permits
projector / speakers

possible use of a suitable space for a short 3- 5 minute performance if time permits
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Athene Currie