Burgher, V. 2026. Stirring Up Whiteness: Porcelain and Antiracism in Practice. in: Halland, I., Sørensen, T. and Birkeli, H. (ed.) Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics Leiden Brill.
| Chapter title | Stirring Up Whiteness: Porcelain and Antiracism in Practice |
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| Authors | Burgher, V. |
| Editors | Halland, I., Sørensen, T. and Birkeli, H. |
| Abstract | This chapter analyses the use of porcelain to interrogate ideological whiteness as antiracist praxis. Drawing on empirical material including sculptural objects, participatory workshops, performance, and video, the research adopts an iterative, practice-led and autoethnographic methodology. Situated across critical race studies, material culture, and artistic practice, the chapter engages with critical whiteness and double consciousness. It argues that porcelain’s material and historical associations with purity, value, and colonial power render it a potent medium through which to expose and unsettle hegemonic whiteness. Central to the analysis is a critical tension: how to make whiteness visible without reproducing its ideological dominance. |
| Keywords | antiracism, ideological whiteness, porcelain, practice research |
| Book title | Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Place of publication | Leiden |
| File | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |