Anarchitecture After Everything
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies! This is the Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality's Annual Lecture in collaboration with the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and the Department of Design.
Lecturer
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, out in 2020, from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.
Title
Anarchitecture After Everything
Abstract
Anarchitecture, a set of art practices that emerged in the 1970’s out of experiments with the sculpting of abandoned buildings, offers an expansive language for thinking about how bodies (and specifically trans bodies) emerge as a consequence of cutting, breaking, dismantling and collapse. This language places trans bodies in space, in relation to projects other than bodily identity, and links the reimagining of bodies and selves to the reorganization of social relations and physical space. Refusing the medical and legal languages of curing, healing, recognizing and legitimizing, anarchitecture reminds us that change can come in many different forms and that improvement and repair are not necessarily its goals.
Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Please register if you want to participate via Zoom.
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies