Tuesday 7 June
10.00 am – 12.00 noon
LEONORA CARRINGTON AND THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE BODY AND HUMANITY
This panel will introduce Leonora Carrington’s life and work, which is filled with hybrid creatures that cross species and states of being, examining points of contact between the artist’s universe and the theme of metamorphosis that runs through the 59th International Art Exhibition, The Milk of Dreams.
Welcome and introductory remarks by Cecilia Alemani, Curator, The Milk of Dreams.
Conversation between Joanna Moorhead, journalist and author; and Marina Warner, award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; moderated by Angela Vettese, art critic and Professor at the Università Iuav di Venezia.
Audience Q&A.
5.00 pm – 7.00 pm
POSTHUMAN FEMINISM
Many of the artists included in The Milk of Dreams imagine a posthuman condition that challenges the modern Western vision of the human being − especially the supposed ideal of the “Man of Reason” − as the fixed centre of the universe and measure of all things. This panel will introduce and discuss various strands of the posthuman turn.
Keynote by Rosi Braidotti, philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University.
Conversation between Rosi Braidotti; Alexandra Pirici, participating artist at the 59th International Art Exhibition; Jeffrey Deitch, curator of the 1992 Post Human exhibition and dealer, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.
Audience Q&A.