“The project approaches collapse not as failure, but as a generative condition for artistic and collective invention.”
—Helga Davis
—Helga Davis
Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. In Anarchitecture After Everything, Jack Halberstam identifies a powerful lexicon of transformation within anarchitecture, joining the movement’s practices of cutting and splitting with the destabilizing power of transness to detonate acts of formal violence in our time. In a conversation with Avgi Saketopoulou, Halberstam will discuss this revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment, which unites radical politics and trans aesthetics.
Jack Halberstam is David Feinson Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of seven books, including Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance, The Queer Art of Failure, and Female Masculinity. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, he is the winner of the Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship and was recently the subject of the film So We Moved by Adam Pendleton.
Originally from Cyprus and from Greece, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a clinical psychologist and a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. She serves on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. She is currently completing her new book manuscript, The Offer of Sadism: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetics of Political Resistance in the Anti-Reparative Turn.
Jack Halberstam is David Feinson Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of seven books, including Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance, The Queer Art of Failure, and Female Masculinity. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, he is the winner of the Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship and was recently the subject of the film So We Moved by Adam Pendleton.
Originally from Cyprus and from Greece, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a clinical psychologist and a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. She serves on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. She is currently completing her new book manuscript, The Offer of Sadism: Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetics of Political Resistance in the Anti-Reparative Turn.
“The project approaches collapse not as failure, but as a generative condition for artistic and collective invention.”
—Helga Davis
—Helga Davis
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Thu, Aug 27 at 1pm
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Thu, Aug 27 at 1pm
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Tickets available for $10, $20, or $30
Please note: All single ticket online and phone orders are subject to a $3 facility fee and an $4.50 handling fee per ticket. All orders at the box office are subject to a $3 facility fee per ticket.
These events are not eligible for BAM Bundle discount orders.
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