In this interview with Charlotte Erckrath and Sarah Stevens, the co-editors of Liminalities, a special issue of OUO Scientific Journal, I talk about my practice of site-writing from its roots in teaching architectural history and theory as a form of practice, and how I came to call this form of situated writing – site-writing. I discuss how site-writing can be understood as a form of feminist figuration introduced through the work of feminist philosophers like Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti. I revisit Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, from 2010, picking up on my interest in the spatial potential of writing, my curatorial and editorial interest in arranging and re-arranging texts, the importance of the fragment for both its melancholic and utopian qualities, and how I have been working with the notion and experience of transitional space in negotiating places of between from my work on feminist architectural history to more recent interests in practising ethics. I emphasise the importance of feminism to site-writing, the ways in which concepts of positionality and situatedness have framed feminist research in the social sciences and arts and humanities, and how practice-led research takes this to a new place in terms of current feminist and decolonial embodied material practices that engage not only with concepts that operate across academic disciplines, but those that fully engage with actual places and political issues that matter – transforming into activist practices that take up ecological issues, and develop ethical approaches that are also poetical – sympoetic and poethical.

‘Responding to what the World needs Now,’ Jane Rendell interviewed by Charlotte Erckrath and Sarah Stevens, for Liminalities, a special issue of OUO Scientific Journal, co-edited by Erckrath and Stevens (July 2024).

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