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Dr. Kate Antosik-Parsons

Teaching Fellow (History Of Art)
      
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Dr. Kate Antosik-Parsons

Teaching Fellow (History Of Art)

 kantosik@tcd.ie

 


Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons is a contemporary art historian and interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in gender, sexuality, reproductive health, performance and embodiment. Kate is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Previously she was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Studies in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin on the cross-border HEA-funded North/South Reproductive Citizenship project (2022-2025); and the HSE-funded Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study (2021-2019). Kate has contributed to national and international research projects including feminist research for Guerrilla Girls Project Ireland (2009) on Irish collections and exhibitions. For L'Internationale's Our Many Europes (2019-2020), she conducted 11 oral histories with Ireland-based performance artists from the 1980/90s in a significant project situating Irish art within wider European and global contexts, whilst enriching NIVAL archives. On the all-island HEA-funded ReproCit Project (TCD and UU collaboration, 2023-2025), Kate examined abortion policy and the enactment of reproductive citizenship in Ireland and Northern Ireland using innovative, interdisciplinary methods, including socially engaged art. From this, she co-edited a special issue of the Irish Journal of Sociology (2025) and co-developed a creative toolkit from participatory art workshops, shared internationally with reproductive justice activists in differing political and cultural contexts. Kate has authored a number of exhibition reviews in VAN, IN:Action Irish Live Art Review, Circa Art Magazine, the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media and Totally Dublin.
  Abortion   body politics and practices   Contemporary art   creative methodologies   Cultural Studies   FEMINISM   Live Art and Body Practices   Performance studies   Sexuality and sexual health   Visual art   Visual Culture
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International Association for Studies of Irish Literatures (IASIL) 2022 Present
AICA, Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art / International Association of Art Critics 2022 Present
Visual Artists Ireland (Professional Member) 2006 Present
Kate Antosik-Parsons, 'Stop Ruining Everything': Array Collective's Disruptive Encounters with Art, Irishness and Nation, Irish University Review, 55, (1), 2025, p113 - 127, p113-127 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon, Fiona Bloomer, Emma Campbell, Gender, nation and reproduction in the afterward of repeal and decriminalisation, Irish Journal of Sociology, 33, (1-2), 2025, p30 - 47, p30-47 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Bulter, E.M., Ryan, M., Antosik-Parsons, K., Vallieres, F., & Conlon, C., What is the Role of Crisis Pregnancy Counselling in Ireland Post-Liberalisation of Abortion Law?, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 25, (2), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Catherine Conlon, Deirdre Duffy, After the review: What next for Irish abortion services? Introduction to the special issue, Irish Journal of Sociology, 33, (1-2), 2025, p3 - 8, p3-8 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Under the feet of shadows, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 21, (3), 2025, p657 - 658, p657-658 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Flynn, S.,Caffrey, L.,Antosik-Parsons, K.,Whiting, S., Byrne, J. and Conlon, C., New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 28, (2), 2025, p179 - 192, Notes: [DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2024.2329430], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Conlon C., Antosik-Parsons K., Butler E., Experiences of the Irish model of community medical abortion: adherence to self-managed, people-centred abortion care, Irish Political Studies, 40, (1), 2025, p6 - 28, p6-28 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, 'Say Nope to the Pope': performance and resistance in the creative interventions during the 2018 papal visit to Ireland, Irish Studies Review, 32, (2), 2024, p262 - 281, p262-281 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, By Slight Ligaments by Aideen Barry, Limerick: Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland 16 December 2021-13 February 2022. https://www.aideenbarry.com/byslightligaments, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19, (1), 2023, p143 - 146, p143-146 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Antosik-Parsons, Karen E. Till, Gerry Kearns, Jack Callan, Niamh McDonald, Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 6, (1), 2022, p1 - 25, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
  

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Aftereffects and Resonances: The Embodied Histories of Performance Art in Ireland in the 1990s in, editor(s)Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, Sezin Romi , L'INTERNATIONALE Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives, L'Internationale Online, 2022, pp312 - 322, [Kate Antosik-Parsons], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Conlon, Catherine, Antosik-Parsons, Kate, and Butler, Éadaoin, Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study, Health Service Executive, Dublin, July, 2022, p1 - 298, Report, PUBLISHED
Kate Antosik-Parsons, 'Unruly Bodies in Amanda Coogan's They Come Then, the Birds.', They Come Then The Birds, Rua Red Gallery, 2021, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED

  


My research centres on modern and contemporary Irish art; performance and time-based art practices; the embodied politics of gender and sexualities; creative feminist activism, abortion and reproductive justice; and decolonial performance strategies.