Interview with Karen Redrobe, Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War

Beeston, Alix ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6356-7931 and Redrobe, Karen 2025. Interview with Karen Redrobe, Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War. [Podcast]. New Books in Film 16 July 2025. Available at: https://newbooksnetwork.com/undead

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Abstract

Karen Redrobe's latest book Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War (Univ of California Press, 2025) is a fascinating account of the role of animation in the visual cultures of war. It analyzes works by artists including Yael Bartana, Nancy Davenport, Kelly Dolak and Wazhmah Osman, Gesiye, David Hartt, Helen Hill, Onyeka Igwe, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Mary Reid Kelley, and Patrick Kelley, in which relational and intermedial practices of “(inter)(in)animation” generate aesthetic tactics for reframing war. Like all of Karen's work, Undead is theoretically rich, thoroughly interdisciplinary, and written with clarity as well as urgency. Its mixture of clear-sighted criticality and dogged hopefulness is especially powerful in the times of conflict, cruelty, and destructiveness through which we’re living. In this wide-ranging conversation, Karen speaks with refreshing honesty and vulnerability about how to reimagine scholarly research and writing in line with anti-war feminist politics, what it means to confront the complicity of the university—and of university workers—in cultures of war, and why scholars should embrace being wrong and taking risks.

Item Type:	Audio
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general T Technology > TR Photography
Publisher:	New Books Network
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2025 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179976

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