All Fall Down: a conversation with Jack Halberstam
Friday 06 Jan 2023 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free upon registration
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Echoing the Cyprien Gaillard exhibition, Jack Halberstam analyses the cycles of collapse and construction in urban renewal, which he addresses in his catalogue text.
An aesthetic of collapse emerges from a unique body of work by predominantly gay and transgender artists from the 1970s to the present. This aesthetic paves the way for a politics of the end of the world.
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University.
Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. It is playing at MoMA until January 30, 2022.