“The history of feminism is, in a sense, the history of autotheory.”

Lauren Fournier, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism, 2021.

Thinking & Writing Place – Writing as Feminist Spatial Practice was a seminar curated by Lilian Robl at the Technische Universität München in spring 2023.

The production of multilayered texts that reflect the spatiality and locality of writing was at the core of the seminar. The act of writing itself is part of the relationship to place, not just the description of place. The seminar focused primarily on texts belonging to the genre of autotheory, i.e. the integration of the self (the ‘auto’) into the field of theory. This is a practice where the personal and the theoretical meet and self-consciously merge, moving between the visual arts, literature and science.