Anna Watkins Fisher is a doctoral student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She holds an M.A. from NYU in Performance Studies and a B.A. from Duke University. Her dissertation, Feminist Impositions: Performing Parasites in Contemporary Art and Media, proposes parasitism, in the context of contemporary performance art, as a tactical mode of appropriation for moving beyond certain critical impasses for feminist theory.
She has published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Le Texte Étranger, contributed to the book In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (Continuum, 2011), and has an essay forthcoming in TDR (The Drama Review).
This essay proposes parasitism as a conceptual frame that has come to characterize not only the economy of relations of late capitalism but also work by a younger generation of feminist artists. Engaging the work of Bri[...]
June 28, 2011
