This panel will introduce Leonora Carrington’s literary work and expand on the key and open-ended notion of fabulation – a term employed in literary criticism to describe a writing methodology that fuses history and the everyday with invention and the fantastical – in storytelling and artmaking.
Keynote by Saidiya Hartman, University Professor at Columbia University, New York.
Conversation between Saidiya Hartman; Sophia Al-Maria, and Elisa Giardina Papa, participating artists at the 59th International Art Exhibition; moderated by Anna Watz, Associate Professor of English, Linköping University, Sweden.
Audience Q&A.
