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Queer-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art & Visual Cultures
Queen Mary, University of London, Arts Two Lecture Theatre Mile End Road, London, United KingdomInternational Conference presented as part of EcoFutures Festival This one-day international conference brings together artists, theorists and activists to cover topics ranging from non-human ethics to ecosexuality. Invited guests include Gaia Giuliani, João Florêncio and Silvia Federici. Artworks by Wangechi Mutu, Adelita Husni-Bey and Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle will be screened for this occasion. […]
Technosomata Workshop 1
University of Exeter Exeter, United KingdomTECHNOLOGY, SEX AND GENDER IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 7th of June 2019 Amory Building Room 315 Convened by: Maria Gerolemou Supported by the Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquityand Beyond and the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter This workshop proposes to explore the ways that technology (defined as techniques) produces, configures or reshapes gender and […]
Conference: Sex and Nature, 1800–2018
University of Exeter Exeter, United KingdomKeynote speakers: Greta LaFleur, Yale University, USA Astrida Neimanis, University of Sydney, Australia Artist in Residence: Amy Cutler, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Since 2016 the Ecosexual Bathhouse art venue has been touring the world. Designed by the Pony Express artist collective, this roving multi-chamber venue aims to explore ecological fantasies: visitors can […]
Technosomata Workshop 2
Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, United KingdomClick here for the programme.
Viral Masculinities (Free online conference)
ZoomKeynote Speakers: Professor John Mercer (Birmingham City University) Professor Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku) Professor Tim Dean (University of Illinois) We’re living in viral times; ours is a time of contagion. As Tony Sampson writes in his book Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, “the networked infrastructures of late capitalism are interwoven with the […]
Research Seminar: Professor David Getsy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Freie Universität Berlin)
ZoomViral Sites: Scott Burton’s Sculpture, Undetectability, and Public Art in the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis in the U.S. Scott Burton was one of the most well-known proponents of the new public art in the United States in the 1980s, and his work involved making site-specific sculptures of furniture that served the public. These […]
Talk: Professor Grace Lavery (University of California, Berkeley)
Reed Hall, University of Exeter Streatham Dr, Exeter, United Kingdom*The talk will take place in the Woodbridge Room of the University of Exeter's Reed Hall. Registration is essential and will close on the 28 of February to ensure accurate planning for number of guests registered.* Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, Critical […]