Queer-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art & Visual Cultures
A day-long international & interactive conference presented as part of EcoFutures Festival
Sat 13 April 2019
Queen Mary University of London, Arts Two Lecture Theatre
Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS
10:30am - 18:45pm
£3
Tickets: via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-feminist-ecocriticism-in-live-art-visual-cultures-tickets-58429256479
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 Florencio and Silvia Federici. Artworks by Wangechi Mutu, Adelita Husni-Bey and Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle will be screened for this occasion.
Conference Programme
10:30-11:00 – Registration
11:00-12:45 – Non-Human Ethics and Xenopolitics
Rita Natálio
Wangechi Mutu, The End of Eating Everything, 2013. 8mins (video screening)
Ama Josephine Budge
Gaia Giuliani
Q&A 20”
12:45-13:45 – Walk to the Mile End Art Pavilion accompanied by performance by Liam Geary Baulch + public showcase of Quimera Rosa open lab & talk in the gallery as part of ‘Staring at the Sun’ exhibition
13:45-15:00 – Lunch break
15:00-16:30 – Sexing the Planet: Performing Ecological Intimacies
Isabel Burr Raty
Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, Ecosexual Wedding Project, 2008-2014. 10mins (video screening)
João Florencio
Q&A 20”
16:45-18:45 – Repair, Resist, Revitalize: New Synergies in the Anthropocene
Nadja Verena Marcin
Helena Hunter
Q&A 15”
Adelita Husni-Bey, The Reading, 2017. 15mins (video screening)
Silvia Federici
Q&A 15”
18:45 – 19:45 Drink Reception
This conference has been generously supported by the Doctoral College Initiative Fund at Queen Mary University, Arts Council England, the British Association for American Studies & the U.S. Embassy in London and the Tower Hamlets Events Fund.
If you are unable to afford the ticket, please get in touch with us.
Links
EcoFutures: https://www.facebook.com/EcoFuturesFest
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2444837762472105/
Web: https://cuntemporary.org/queer-feminist-ecocriticism/
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Enquiries
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Festival: https://cuntemporary.org/category/projects/ecofutures/
image: Nadja Verena Marcin, OPHELIA (Still 3), New York, 2017. Photo by Marque DeWinter. Courtesy the artist & 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York & AKArt, San Francisco.
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