Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Presentations and Discussions with Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek and Raluca Voinea
Calendar
The Reproductive Body Politics: Technology, Gender, Collectivity with Helen Hester
In this lecture, Helen Hester will unpack the possibilities of a single technology – the Del-Em menstrual extraction device designed by feminists in the 1970s – and will outline the genealogical connections between second wave feminist self-help movements and the emerging technofeminist activisms of today. By focusing on four key ideas – gatekeepers; scalability; technological repurposing; and intersectionality – she will aim to demonstrate that contemporary gender politics still has much to learn from these earlier initiatives, whilst suggesting that such initiatives still need updating for today.
Can Populism Be Global? with Nick Srnicek
The question of a collective body is, according to Ernesto Laclau, the most essential task facing the radical left today. This talk will examine the conditions facing the production of a collective body – globally dispersed, riven by sexism, racism, colonialism, and nationalism, and yet at the same time, increasingly united by its proletarian position. If capital can only be faced up to at the global level, what does this mean for a collective politics today? What options are available, and what can be done in the effort to build a collective body?
Ariadna’s Dance Ring with Raluca Voinea
Raluca Voinea will attempt a symbolic archaeology of the dancefloor as a platform for the enactment of gender equality, desires, masks and murder. From the Minoan women to Michael Jackson, via Jane Fonda and Grace Jones.
About the artists
Helen Hester is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of West London. Her research interests include technofeminism, sexuality studies, and theories of social reproduction, and she is a member of the international feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks. She is the author of Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), the co-editor of the collections Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (Ashgate, 2015) and Dea ex Machina (Merve, 2015), and series editor for Ashgate’s Sexualities in Society book series.
Nick Srnicek is the author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams) and author of the Accelerationist Manifesto (with Alex Williams).
Raluca Voinea is curator and art critic. She is part of tranzit.ro, IDEA arts + society and ArtLeaks collectives. She is co-author, together with Alexandra Pirici, of the Manifesto for the Gynecene (2015).
