Katie Anania is an historian of modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with research interests in queer and feminist theory, the environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. While at the ISM she will work on her second book, Devour Everything: Feminist Art After Agriculture, which examines queer and feminist art projects in the Americas that sought to repair ecological imbalances in the wake of the Green Revolution. Tracing the relationship between feminist ecological activism and musical forms from various ancestral traditions, this multi-sensory study shows focuses on Black, Mexican American, Chicanx and Latinx feminist approaches to music, voice, and the visual arts. Their practices affirmed more-than-human nature as sacred and worked to unite the earthly (through agriculture) and the divine (through broader and more accessible notions of a higher power). Through healing ceremonies, chants, revived ancestral music, volunteer clinics, collective feminist farms, and modes of musical protest, artists in this period re-shaped land relations and conservation discourses alike. The book contends that these coalitional feminist “technologies of kinship” were central to reimagining bodies’ relationships to food, land, and the otherworldly at the end of the twentieth century. She is currently an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
