QUEER DURATION Symposium @ Brown University

I hope you're doing well. I'd like to invite you to QUEER DURATIONS, a three-day symposium at Brown University exploring duration in queer and trans aesthetic and performance. The gathering will feature performances as well as talks by artists, scholars, and curators. It promises to be quite an amazing gathering! You can RSVP for free here. Will you also forward the event with your networks?

Warmly, 

JD Stokely

Brown University

Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

They/Them/Theirs

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QUEER DURATIONS Symposium 

at Brown University 

December 5-7, 2024

Part of the Brown Arts IGNITE Series, this three-day symposium will explore duration in queer and trans aesthetics and performance.

QUEER DURATIONS is a three-day symposium that delves into the significance of duration as a vital aesthetic concern for performance, visual, and media artists, illuminating duration’s importance to the artistic rendering of queer lives, communities, and subjectivities. Highlights of the symposium will include performances developed by four of today’s most innovative performance artists: Anh Vo, Dorian Wood, Elliot Reed, and Xiomara Sebastián Castro Niculescu (XSCN). These performances will be accompanied by panel discussions with leading curators Adrienne Edwards (Whitney Museum of American Art), Lia Gangitano (Participant INC, NY), and Shoghig Halajian (Human Resources, LA); artists Sharon Hayes, Brooke O’Hara, Julie Tolentino, Simon Leung, and Jonathan Berger; and scholars Tavia Nyong’o, Heather Love, and Summer Kim Lee, in conversation with Brown faculty members Leticia Alvarado, J Dellecave, and Leon Hilton and Brown Arts Insitute’s Associate Curator Thea Quiray Tagle. A video program of durational artworks, curated by Brown PhD student JD Stokely, will run concurrently with the symposium.

Where: 

Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University

154 Angell Street, Providence, RI 02912

When: 

December 5-7, 2024

Reservations: 

Free and open to the public

For more information: 

Please visit https://arts.brown.edu/queer-durations

QUEER DURATIONS is produced by Brown Arts Institute and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies as part of the inaugural Brown Arts IGNITE Series, with additional support from the Pembroke Center's Faculty Seed Grant Program and the Department of American Studies and US Latino Studies Fund.