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 histories of knowledge. While in residence at the ISM, she will work on her third book, Devour Everything: Feminist Art After Agriculture, which traces queer and feminist art projects in the Americas that sought to repair ecological imbalances in the wake of the Green Revolution. Through healing ceremonies, volunteer clinics, collective feminist farms, and modes of musical protest, artists in this period worked outside the existing logics of agriculture and medicine, and used vision, touch, and sound to re-shape land relations and conservation discourses alike. The book contends that these coalitional feminist “technologies of kinship” were central to reimagining bodies’ relationships to food and land at the end of the twentieth century. She is currently an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
