Susan Best is Professor of art history and theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the author of Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde (I B Tauris, 2011) and Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography (Bloomsbury, 2016), both books won the Australian and New Zealand Art Association annual book prize. She is currently completing a book titled It’s not personal: Post 60s body art and performance (contracted to Bloomsbury philosophy).