I am contemporary art historian, visual arts curator and writer. 
• 
Currently, I teach at the department Artistic Strategies at the University for Applied Arts, Vienna and I work as an independent curator and artistic advisor. 
• 

My research and my work are shaped by many artists, writers, theoreticians, friends, in whose companionship I grow and change. Feminist theories, especially decolonial feminism, queer feminism and techno-feminism, as well as feminist artistic and activist practices, have taught me to be wary of all forms of essentialism and to prefer staying with the trouble, together. 
• 
I am interested in artistic practices which relentlessly address the socio-political-ecological devastation caused by a racist patriarchal system of extraction. A space for critique and resistance, art is for me also an experimental site, where fabulation, speculation and repair can be practiced – as remedies against the sorcery of capitalism. I am interested as much in artworks and artistic productions, as in the political contexts in which they emerge and the working conditions in which they are crafted. 
• 
My latest research focuses on the function of language in the realisation and consolidation of the regime of separation and hierarchisation – between the subject and the object, the human and the nature, the living and the non-living, the ratio and the affects, etc. – established by the imperial colonial liberal project.  Still, ways of saying, perceiving and understanding the world in interdependence and interconnectedness have always existed. The mobilisation of embodied and situated speaking and writing in the framework of artistic practices and beyond, as ways to counter fascist rhetorics and its hollowing out of language, is what currently occupies me.  
• 

[email protected]
•
Photo 
Kristina DESKA Nikolic






"I am not only right in the middle of it, in the networked and virtualized era of cyberpunk, which at the time, when we read “Neuromancer” or “He, She and It,” I did not imagine to be so ordinary; rather, what is more is that I also belong to that reprehensible species (the “human” species) that takes control of, pollutes, and eradicates everything. But I am also a mother, cyborg, art theorist, bacteria, water, plant, subjectified “in the belly of the monster;” I am a feeling, moving, sensing being, an earthling with and among others. I exist, I am open, I am …"

– Yvonne Volkart, Techno-Öko-Feminismus. Unmenschliche Empfindungen in technoplanetarischen Schichten, in: Cornelia Sollfrank (ed.), Die Schönen Kriegerinnen, 2018