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“REVOLT, SHE SAID”
Long Table: 2-4.30pm, Banqueting Hall
Cabaret: 6-8.30pm, Canteen Annexe
Friday, 8 March 2019
Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
Revolt, as I understand it—psychic revolt, analytic revolt, artistic revolt—refers to a permanent state of questioning, of transformations, an endless probing of appearances.
— JULIA KRISTEVA
This Long Table discussion will be led by members of the Subjectivity and Feminisms Research Group at Chelsea College of Arts and invited guests (artists and writers). The event will take Julia Kristeva’s distinction between the terms “revolt” and “revolution” as a springboard to debate a perceived antagonism between activism and creativity. All audience members are encouraged to take up seats at the table and participate in the debate, based on Lois Weaver’s ‘Long Table’ Etiquette.
“Revolt” is seen by Kristeva as a continuous process of exposing contradictions and undoing fixity. By contrast, she views “revolution” as being directed towards establishing a new political order that inevitably results in conformity.
How might Kristeva’s concept of “revolt” offer hope to artists who are not necessarily activists, yet who are keen to effect change in attitudes towards the category of being ‘female’, a still marginalised position in patriarchal culture, the success of feminist movements notwithstanding. Or is a Kristevan process of “revolt” superfluous in an era of #MeToo?
Everyone’s welcome!
Booking is essential as places are limited.
For more information and to book visit: http://bit.ly/revolt-she-said
Convened by Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group at Chelsea College of Arts.
Presented by Research Events: Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, as part of School of Fine Art Public Programme.
Image courtesy: Stephanie Spindler/Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group at Chelsea College of Arts.
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