Lauren Fournier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Fournier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Fournier |
| SIGNATURE | FOURNIER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University, Toronto, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Terroir as Territory
In this text, I reflect on the relationship between terroir and territory as part of a critical settler practice of sourdough bread-baking in the prairies of Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan. I propose that a framework of terroir-as-territory is one way of conceiving of and practising decolonialization within land-based food systems. Writing through conversation, reflection, and provocation, I consider the place of fermentation practices—specifically…
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Autotheory—the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography—as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term “autotheory” began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier …
Becoming Post-Hysteric
This article considers American writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus’s genre-bending, parodic book I Love Dick (1997) as a way to deconstruct divisions that persist between the female “hysteric” and the male “schizophrenic” in contemporary theory. Even after the feminist movements in France, the UK, and America in the 1970s, there remained a gender divide lying dormant within even the more experimental contemporary theory: the male schizophrenic is g…
Fermenting Feminism as Methodology and Metaphor
This article proposes the possibilities of fermentation, or microbial transformation, as a material practice and speculative metaphor through which to approach today’s transnational feminisms. The author approaches this from the perspective of their multiyear curatorial experiment Fermenting Feminism, looking to multidisciplinary practices across the arts that bring together fermentation and feminism in dynamic ways. The article outlines ten ways…
The Post Avant-Garde Aesthetics of the Glitch
Flesh is the extravagance within us set up against the law of decency – Georges Bataille, Erotism A different, anarchistic type of struggle requires a new grammar, possibly a new voice, potentially the passive voice. – Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Feminists artists, writers, and scholars throughout history have responded to the ways in which what was once called “women’s experience,” and is now understood more plurally and strategica…
Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory
In autotheory as contemporary feminist practice, artists, writers, philosophers, activists, curators, and critics use the autobiographical, first person, and related practices of self-imaging (Jones, Self/Image 134) to process, perform, enact, iterate, subvert, instantiate, and wrestle with the hegemonic discourses of “theory” and philosophy. The term “autotheory” circulates specifically in relation to third wave and fourth wave feminist texts, s…
Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory
In autotheory as contemporary feminist practice, artists, writers, philosophers, activists, curators, and critics use the autobiographical, first person, and related practices of self-imaging (Jones, Self/Image 134) to process, perform, enact, iterate, subvert, instantiate, and wrestle with the hegemonic discourses of “theory” and philosophy. The term “autotheory” circulates specifically in relation to third wave and fourth wave feminist texts, s…
The Post Avant-Garde Aesthetics of the Glitch
Flesh is the extravagance within us set up against the law of decency – Georges Bataille, Erotism A different, anarchistic type of struggle requires a new grammar, possibly a new voice, potentially the passive voice. – Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Feminists artists, writers, and scholars throughout history have responded to the ways in which what was once called “women’s experience,” and is now understood more plurally and strategica…
Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory
In autotheory as contemporary feminist practice, artists, writers, philosophers, activists, curators, and critics use the autobiographical, first person, and related practices of self-imaging (Jones, Self/Image 134) to process, perform, enact, iterate, subvert, instantiate, and wrestle with the hegemonic discourses of “theory” and philosophy. The term “autotheory” circulates specifically in relation to third wave and fourth wave feminist texts, s…
Fermenting Feminism as Methodology and Metaphor
This article proposes the possibilities of fermentation, or microbial transformation, as a material practice and speculative metaphor through which to approach today’s transnational feminisms. The author approaches this from the perspective of their multiyear curatorial experiment Fermenting Feminism, looking to multidisciplinary practices across the arts that bring together fermentation and feminism in dynamic ways. The article outlines ten ways…
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
Autotheory—the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography—as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term “autotheory” began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier …
Becoming Post-Hysteric
This article considers American writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus’s genre-bending, parodic book I Love Dick (1997) as a way to deconstruct divisions that persist between the female “hysteric” and the male “schizophrenic” in contemporary theory. Even after the feminist movements in France, the UK, and America in the 1970s, there remained a gender divide lying dormant within even the more experimental contemporary theory: the male schizophrenic is g…
Terroir as Territory
In this text, I reflect on the relationship between terroir and territory as part of a critical settler practice of sourdough bread-baking in the prairies of Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan. I propose that a framework of terroir-as-territory is one way of conceiving of and practising decolonialization within land-based food systems. Writing through conversation, reflection, and provocation, I consider the place of fermentation practices—specifically…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Biography (2 works) · Biology (2 works)