Trans Looking
An event by the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Transgender Studies.
What does it mean for a work of art to “look trans”? How do we locate aesthetic corollaries for political categories of identification in the materiality of a work of art? This talk studies work across a range of media whose formal and conceptual terms rhyme with certain expressions of transness to describe the relationship between materiality, aesthetics, and trans and nonbinary subjectivity.
Cat Dawson, Ph.D. studies the cultural production of minoritized subjects in the global 20th and 21st centuries. Their first book, Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists is Shaping the Memorial Landscape (MIT Press) comes out on 5 August. They are currently working on their second book, Trans Form: Shaping the Subject in Modernity and Contemporaneity.