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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Ari Heinrich
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Proximity: Biological Materials and Anti-Colonial Practice at the 2020 Sydney Biennale\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is also part of the “Bad Matters: Trans Asia and Improper Materialities” workshop to be held on Oct 22-23. \nIn this talk\, I consider how an ensemble of biopolitically significant substances\, deployed as art materials\, can reshape how audiences understand viewing environments—and one another. Collectively\, I argue\, such substances have the capacity to challenge inherited narratives of race\, gender\, and sexuality through the deliberate positioning of audiences near real or perceived sources of contagion or contamination within exhibition contexts\, a tactic I call “strategic proximity.” \nI focus on the unique conditions and curation of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney\, a major multi-site exhibition that ran for less than two weeks in March 2020 before closing early due to COVID-related restrictions. Curated by Brook Andrew\, the first Indigenous Australian artist to serve as artistic director of the Biennale\, the exhibition foregrounded Indigenous sovereignty while drawing attention to the colonial histories embedded in its institutional sites. I consider Andrew’s curatorial interventions alongside the contribution of queer and trans artist Jes Fan\, whose work brought together melanin\, blood\, semen\, urine\, and sex hormones—substances that occupy outsized roles in the (bio)political imagination as potential vectors of contamination\, whether through “disease” or through racialized\, gendered\, and sexualized meanings. Against the backdrop of the emerging pandemic\, I argue that Andrew’s curatorial framework and Fan’s biomaterial interventions exposed and inverted assumptions of separation between museum visitors\, exhibition spaces\, and the materials on display. \n— \nAri Heinrich is Gallery Director at the Australian Centre on China in the World and Professor of Chinese Media and Literature at the Australian National University. Their research spans nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese visual cultures\, histories of medicine and the body\, and anti-Chinese racisms in Europe\, North America\, and Australia. They have written on subjects ranging from anatomical illustration in China to contemporary Chinese “cadaver art\,” as well as on the work of individual artists including Lu Yang\, Chi Peng\, Kongkee\, and Jes Fan. \nHeinrich’s books include The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West (Duke\, 2008) and Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Duke\, 2018). In 2019\, Ari received an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant for research on the use of the pigment melanin in Jes Fan’s work. They are co-editor with Sophie Guo of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of the Society of Asian Humanities on biohazards\, toxicity\, and the politics of display in modern and contemporary art in Asia and its diasporas. They have also translated queer literature from Taiwan\, including Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books\, 2014) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (Columbia\, 2021). \n— \nShana Ye is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (2024)\, and her work has appeared in TSQ\, Feminist Studies\, Gender\, Place & Culture\, Feminist Media Studies\, and several edited volumes. Her current research spans queer material culture\, feminist science and technology studies\, queer AI\, and an SSHRC-sponsored study on digitalization and LGBT aging and eldercare. She is also a creative writer interested in Boys Love\, SF and blood. \n— \nFor accesibility requests and dietary restrictions\, please contact us at wgsi.comms@utoronto.ca
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/ari-heinrich/
LOCATION:William Doo Auditorium\, 45 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:WGS Research Seminar
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: William C. Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A Nation on No Map At Five\n\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Another Story Bookshop \nWhen William C. Anderson published The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition in 2021\, it was an attempt to diagnose and avoid many problems plaguing sectarian leftism in the U.S. By working to bring Black anarchist history into its proper recognition within the Black radical tradition\, Anderson tasked himself with both excavation and practical application. Now\, five years later\, this event serves as a reflection on what’s happened since this critical intervention. Anderson will give short remarks on his relationship to this work on its five-year anniversary and assess what it means going forward. He’ll be joined by scholars Robyn Maynard\, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, and Tiana Reid for a conversation about how the book meets this current moment and its relevance for times ahead. The Nation on No Mapat 5 is not just a celebration of a book; it’s an opportunity to consider praxis. \n— \nWilliam C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham\, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, MTV\, British Journal of Photography\, Logic(s) Magazine\, and Prism\, where he’s a monthly columnist and board member. He is the author of The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies Who Do You Serve\, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014). \n— \nRobyn Maynard is an author and scholar based in Toronto\, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies. Her writing on borders\, policing\, abolition and Black feminism is taught widely in universities across Canada\, the United States and Europe. \nMaynard is the author of two books. Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017) is a national bestseller\, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times\, listed in The Walrus‘s “best books of 2018\,” shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award\, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction\, and the winner of the 2017 Errol Sharpe Book Prize. In 2018 the book was published in French with Mémoire d’encrier\, titled NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage\, répression et violence d’État au Canada and won the 2019 Prix de libraires in the category of “essais.” Rehearsals for Living (Knopt/Haymarket\, 2022) co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, is a Toronto Star\, Globe and Mail\, and CBC National Bestseller\, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award for literary non-fiction\, a finalist for the Heritage Toronto Book Award and designated one of CBC’s “best Canadian non-fiction books of 2022” and the “best 100 books of 2022” by the Hill Times. \n— \nLeanne B. Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician\, writer and academic\, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the boundaries between story and song\, bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound\, light\, and sovereign creativity. \nWorking for more than two decades as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices\, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada\, the United States\, Australia\, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation. \nLeanne is the author of eight books\, including A Short History of the Blockade and the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize. Her collaboration with Robyn Maynard\, Rehearsals for Living is a National Best Seller and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Leanne is also a musician. Her latest release Theory of Ice was named to the Polaris Prize short list\, and she is the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award. Leanne’s new work\, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust prize for nonfiction. \n— \nTiana Reid  is assistant professor in the Department of English at York University and the author of the poetry collection Nightnursing (2026). Her essays\, reviews\, and academic articles have been published in many places\, including American Quarterly\, Bookforum\, Dissent\, The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Theory & Event\, and The Yale Review. \n— \nFor accesibility requests and dietary restrictions\, please contact us at wgsi.comms@utoronto.ca
URL:https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/event/research-seminar-a-nation-on-no-map-black-anarchism-and-abolition/
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