In their cross-media project, Kotsopoulou & Walsh demonstrate how today’s photographic & performance practices can challenge patriarchy by referring to the history of documenting ‘deviance’ in women.
Aylwyn Walsh
Aylwyn Walsh is an Associate Professor of Performance and Social Change at the University of Leeds School of Performance and Cultural Industries, where she leads the MA in Applied Theatre and Intervention. She directs performance practice with participants referred by mental health services in Leeds, and runs international project with activists in South Africa. Her book Prison Cultures, maps performance, resistance and desire in women’s prisons (Intellect, 2019). She has also published her work on protest, health and arts in numerous peer reviewed international journals.
Aylwyn has performed in the Berlin Biennale, The National Arts festival in South Africa as well as Istanbul’s ‘A Corner of the World’ festival and directed work at Contact Theatre (Manchester), the National Theatre (London), Love Arts Festival (Leeds). She is a board member of TIDAL, working on climate and social justice.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey