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Event - 'Queer Theory of the Avant-Garde'
27 - 28th June 2011
Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum
This two day interdisciplinary conference, the concluding event of a three-year AHRC research project on surrealism and queer sexuality, aims to re-inscribe the
interrelation between queer studies and the historical, spatial and theoretical
dimensions of the twentieth-century avant-gardes – to bring queer theory together
with the theory of the avant-garde.
Speakers include: Dominic Johnson, Giovanna Zapperi, Ron Athey, David Lomas, Charles Miller, Joanna Pawlik, Silvia Loreti, Jeremy Tambling, Roger Cook, Theodore Triandos and Connor Doak.
With a keynote address by Jonathan D. Katz, Director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program and Associate Professor at the State University of New York.
Registration: £15 (including refreshments)
email Joanna.Pawlik@manchester.ac.uk to register.
Ron Athey, accompanied by Othon Mataragas, in Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester
Monday 27 June 2011
7 pm
The conference includes the Northern debut of the performance installation Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing, conceived, scored and directed by Ron Athey with automatic composition and music performance by Othon Mataragas. They will be accompanied by 16 automatic writers, a piano, 6 typists, 4 editors, 1 reader, and a glossolalia chorus. This event is organised by 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, in collaboration with Glorious Trauma and the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies.
For directions and campus map, please visit www.manchester.ac.uk. Admission is free, but as space is limited, you must reserve a ticket through accessing:
http://giftsofthespirit.eventbrite.com/
If you have any questions, please contact lisa@2gyrlz.org or visit www.2gyrlz.org
Event details
- Queer Theory of the Avant-Garde'
- Location: Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum
- Date: Monday, 27th June 2011 - Tuesday, 28th June 2011
This two day interdisciplinary conference, the concluding event of a three-year AHRC research project on surrealism and queer sexuality, aims to re-inscribe the interrelation between queer studies and the historical, spatial and theoretical dimensions of the twentieth-century avant-gardes – to bring queer theory together with the theory of the avant-garde.