The Feminist Lecture Program are excited to announce a brand new collaboration with the Vagina Museum. The same amazing online weekly feminist content you expect from us, now hosted by the world’s only bricks and mortar Vagina Museum. CLASS DESCRIPTION The wonderful Parumveer Walia returns to The Feminist Lecture Program for a study of the Abject as a psycho-social space and its connections to feminism. Tate Modern defines the Abject as that which “transgresses and threatens our sense of cleanliness and propriety, particularly referencing the body and bodily functions”. In Excreta and the Abject in Art History, a study of the Abject as a psycho-social space will be undertaken, and its connections to feminism analyzed. Our relationship to bodily material, and thereby ourselves and each other, will be discussed. Works that utilize such bodily by-products – urine, semen, menstrual blood, feces, et cetra harness the Abject and produce an encounter that centers our relationship to the parts of us that lie beyond care and social acceptability. The policing of the female body and its functions are reworked and addressed in the works the lecture will discuss. Studying across a wide range of disciplines, including Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and more, this class will help attendees better understand the Abject as a mode of meaning-making beyond (and against) cultural concepts of ‘the proper’ and its historical use in the Arts. We will study works that utilize the Abject either through material or through aesthetic, and discuss how these choices shape meaning and affect. A historical survey of the Abject in Art will be used to reveal the gendered politic ingrained in the subject: while the industry revered the ‘brave’ genius of artists like Marc Quinn for his Shit Painting (1997) and Shit Head (1997), the abject looks different when in the hands of Women Artists, who initially, and perhaps still, are not afforded the same liberties as their male counterparts. Artists like Carolee Schneemann and Sarah Lucas, however, offer an exciting antidote to study. ABOUT OUR LECTURER Parumveer Walia is an emerging photographer and writer/curator born in Chandigarh, India and currently working off of the unceded and stolen territories in so-called British Columbia, Canada. Walia’s practice examines systemic frameworks that define us into gender and shapes the political experience of occupying a Body, approached in his practice through a Queer and intimate lens. His rigorously maintained practice has seen him acclaimed internationally. Notably, his works have been exhibited in Poland with BINNAR (2021), published in ArtHole magazine(2020), and his photo-series received a Special Mention at the Ninth Sustainable Development Conference in India (2021). After completing a residency in Serbia with the Belgrade Art Studios (2021), his photography and writing was published in the photobook ‘Photology’ , which was since been acquired for the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, as well as the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. He has recently concluded a research project with the Libby Leshgold Gallery in Canada and is curating his next exhibition, for 2024. UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM Friday 26th JanuaryLuisa Maria MacCormackHysterical Bodies: Gender, Medicine and Wandering Uteruses Monday 29th January Alekzsandra RokvityEndometriosis Activism: Making the Invisible Visible Monday 5th FebruaryEleanor MedhurstDressing Dykes: A History of Lesbian Fashion Monday 12th FebruaryParumveer WaliaExploring the the Abject: Excreta, Feminism and Performativity in Art History Monday 19th FebruaryHolly Isard and Jo HarrisonBreastfeeding as Work: The Contradictions of Breastfeeding Under Capitalism Monday 26th FebruarySophie Paul READING MAKES ME HORNY: Feminist Publishing and Masturbatory Reading And much more to come…RECORDINGA recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares. Please add hello@feministlectureprogram.com to your email contacts to ensure you receive the recording as expected.Please note that the recording will expire 7 days after sending. PAY WHAT YOU CANEveryone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of £20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis. MORE FLP…Can’t get enough? The Feminist Lecture Program has our very own digital archive, where you can find some of the best past lectures from our back catalogue to rent and watch ON DEMAND. Check out our ever growing collection here: https://thefeministlectureprogram.vhx.tv/ Follow us on Instagram @thefeministlectureprogram And check out our sustainable merch from FLP Studio at https://feministlectureprogram.com/shop & @flp__studio And that's it. We're really looking forward to you joining us.
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