Joy is a contribution by writer, curator and educator Barbara Casavecchia. In this episode, she speaks about artist Alex Martinis Roe’s research into a genealogy of feminist political practice and her video A story from Circolo della Rosa (2014). Thereby she includes excerpts from Becoming Public Among Ourselves (2018), her own text on the artist’s work. 

The Episode is part of the series Going to the Limits of Your Longing, Research as Another Name for Care, a collection of episodes emerged from the Master Symposium held in spring 2021 at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW in Basel. The contributions to the symposium were devoted to ideas and forms of artistic research that center art as a practice in service of the social. They revisit certain moments in our recent history and present of researching, producing, and exhibiting art in the name of such beliefs, namely social justice.