Annette van der Zaag

Annette-Carina van der Zaag is a scholar and artist currently based in Amsterdam, specialising in feminist and queer theory, black studies and textile sculpture. She is a senior lecturer in Humanities at Erasmus University College in Rotterdam and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Smith College, Massachusetts. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths (2013) and worked as a researcher and lecturer in London (Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, University of London) before recently moving to The Netherlands. She is the author of Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV: The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides.

Other writing has been published in various journals including philoSOPHIA, the Journal of Visual Culture and Feminist Review. Her current research project, Aesthetics of Ruination, is a collaborative project with Rory Crath (Smith College USA) and Visual AIDS New York, which brings together a group of contemporary scholars, artists and activists to explore how more liveable futures may emerge from the shadow worlds created by two HIV positive visual artists in the early 1990s (Robert Farber and Ronald Lockett). This work will culminate in a public event held in New York in 2025 (funded by the Terra Foundation). Her own art project Fugitive Objects seeks to materialise and put into motion the hapticality of erasure by creating a series of wearable sculptures.