Fwd: Invitation to attend workshop and public lecture by Macgeorge Visiting Speaker Dr Linda Stupart

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You are invited to attend two events on Monday 27th August, a workshop and a public lecture, both conducted by Macgeorge Visiting Speaker Dr Linda Stupart. Please pass on the following information to anyone who might be interested.

Image: Linda Stupart, A Spell to Bind Male Artists from Murdering You, as part of their solo show, “a dead writer exists in words and language is a type of virus,” ARCADIA_MISSA, 2016. Photo by Joseph Noonan-Ganley, courtesy of the artist.

 

1. Queer strategies for doing experimental fiction: a practical writing and making workshop

 

This workshop, conducted by Macgeorge Visiting Speaker Dr Linda Stupart, explicates different modes of experimental writing while configuring how and under what conditions ‘queer writing’ takes place. Stupart will introduce workshop participants to a range of queer writers and writings, as well as practising a number of writing strategies together. Participants will work collectively and individually with Stupart to produce erasure poems, cut-up narratives, speculative works, and individual zines. 

 

Participants will also:

-garner an awareness of the landscape of contemporary experimental writing 

-develop an existing piece of writing or begin a new work 

-develop individual strategies for continuing to draft and edit their work

-receive creative, pragmatic advice for pursuing their practices and careers in a University context and beyond

 

This workshop is open to University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts students, both undergraduate and RhD level, and will be of particular interest to students in the following fields: creative writing, gender studies, literature, fine art, performance art, cultural studies, and editing and publishing. 

 

Details

Time: 10am-2.15pm (10:15am start), Monday 27th August 

Venue: John Medley, 4th Floor Linkway, University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 

Catering provided, incl. vegan. 

Free to attend, RSVP essential.

Capacity is limited to a maximum of 25 participants. The venue is wheelchair accessible by lift, with the closest accessible toilets on the ground floor of John Medley East.

 

RSVP ‘Linda Stupart workshop' in the subject line and your name, field of study, and any special requirements in the body of the text

to Sally Olds so...@student.unimelb.edu.au by Friday 24 August.

2. Public Lecture: 'A spell to bind all male conference panels': experimental fictions, speech acts, and queer resistance

For this public lecture, Dr Linda Stupart will give a performance of their piece ‘A spell to bind all male conference panels’. Combining traditional magical elements with technopaganism, the performance, or live casting, enacts an embodied form of knowledge production, and protection from (cis)masculine futurity. The following discussion will contextualise the performance via an articulation of contemporary queer art and writing practices, drawing on Stupart’s research into magic, fiction, and abjection.

This is Stupart’s first visit to Australia, and their first public appearance at The University of Melbourne. The lecture is free to attend and is open to the public.

Details

Time: 6.45pm-7.45pm, Monday, 27 August 2018
Venue: Discursive Space (Room 553), Arts West Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3010

Admission is free.
Bookings are required- limited capacity. 

RSVP http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/stupart 

About

Dr Linda Stupart is an artist, writer, and educator from Cape Town, South Africa. They completed their PhD at Goldsmiths in 2016, with a project engaged in new considerations of objectification and abjection. Their debut novella, Virus, was published by Arcadia Missa in 2016. Their current work consists of writing, performance, curation, sculpture, drawing, and installation and engages with queer theory, science fiction, environmental crises, magic, language, desire, and revenge.

Their work has been the focus of two solo exhibitions in Cape Town and has also recently been shown/performed at Matt’s Gallery, Tate, The Showroom, a.m. gallery, the ICA, Gasworks, and Guest Projects in London. They had a solo show at Arcadia Missa in March 2016, ‘A Dead Writer Exists in Words and Language is a Type of Virus’, where they also launched Virus. In 2017 they curated DEEP ANGER TRUE LOVE TENDER CARE at The Horse Hospital. 

Stupart is currently working with Tate Schools and Teachers on an in-schools teachers’ resource using art to talk about gender.

SUPPORTED BY THE MACGEORGE BEQUEST

 

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the land on which these events take place, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.