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Siona Wilson
Siona Wilson is associate professor of art history at The College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is author of Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance (Minnesota, 2015). She has published widely in academic journals, edited collections and art magazines on topics including feminist politics of war imaging, documentary photography, film and video art and the gendering of sound. Her recent curatorial projects include I Can’t Breathe at the Gallery of the College of Staten Island (including works by Nona Faustine, Patricia Silva, Kara Walker and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa) and, co-curated, Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores at the James Gallery, New York. This article is related to her current book project that addresses episodes in the history of documentary in light of decolonization and the figure of the female insurgent from the 1930s to the present.