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S.C.U.M. Manifesto Dinner

20 Feb 2009
The S.C.U.M. Manifesto Dinner with Monika Oechsler - a performative event with 25 participating artists, including students, Chelsea College of Art & Design Green Room.

Screen Eroticisms

Guest Lecture – All Welcome – seating on a first come basis
Screen Eroticisms: Technology, the Body and Explorations of Female Desire in the Work of Carolee Schneemann and Pipilotti Rist

Professor Amelia Jones
Thurs Mar 12 6pm
Chelsea Lecture Theatre

Amelia Jones is Professor and Pilkington Chair in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester.  She has organized exhibitions on contemporary art and on feminism, queer, and anti-racist approaches to visual culture. Her publications include the co-edited anthology Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999), and the edited volumes Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003; new edition coming out in 2010) and A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (2006). Following on her Body Art/Performing the Subject (1998), Jones’s recent books include Irrational Modernism:  A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (2004) and Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006). Her current projects are an edited volume Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History (with co-editor Adrian Heathfield) and a book tentatively entitled Seeing Differently: Identification, Contemporary Art and Visual Culture.
Lecture organised by Subjectivity & Feminisms Research Group at Chelsea

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