Conference
Symposium: (Dis) identifications
27 May 2015
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 16:00 – 23:00
Cost of entry
£6 - £10 (Cinema 1)
Address
- Nash House, The Mall
- London
- SW1Y 5AH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Piccadilly Circus/Charing Cross
This one-day event, organised by Alexandra Kokoli and Catherine Dormor, invites a collective exploration of the role of gender and sexual identifications in contemporary art practices. Identity, identification and dis-identification are approached as evolving concepts and embodied practices, foregrounding the indivisibility of body and mind, the material and the virtual.
About
This one-day event, organised by Alexandra Kokoli and Catherine Dormor, invites a collective exploration of the role of gender and sexual identifications in contemporary art practices. Identity, identification and dis-identification are approached as evolving concepts and embodied practices, foregrounding the indivisibility of body and mind, the material and the virtual.
Our aim is to trace intersectional transformations within the arts, spanning feminism, psychoanalysis, queer theory and countercultures. In evoking both identity politics and disidentification (as developed in the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and José Esteban Muñoz), the conference aims to foster a discussion that tactically traverses feminist and queer politics and practices, questioning their assumed division.
Taking gender critical thought, activism and creative practices as starting points, the symposium will showcase contributions from artists, curators, and writers from either theoretical or practice-led perspectives.