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  • Cover of Chris Kraus's I Love Dick. Click to view.

    Cover of Chris Kraus's I Love Dick

  • Critical Writing in Art & Design

    Aliens & Anorexia: A Chris Kraus Symposium

  • The Critical Writing in Art & Design programme at the Royal College of Art is pleased to announce the first conference on the work of the American writer Chris Kraus, to take place in London on 13–14 March 2013. Alongside presentations of new interpretations of Kraus’s work, the conference will include a reading by the author of some of her writings, an on-stage interview and screening of her films.          


    Wednesday 13 March

    10.00
    Doors Open
    10.30 Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, A Delicate Time: Queer Temporalities in Torpor
    11.00
    Hestia Peppe, Because Both of Us Were Girls...
    11.30  
    Samira Ariadad, The Alien Anorexic and Post-Human Bodies
    12.30 On and On and On: Sustained Loss & Symptoms of Knowledge by  Beth Caird and Jesse Dayan
       
    14.00
    Karolin Meunier, Speaking Candour
    14.30 Linda Stupart, Against Critical Distance: Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects
    15.00 Screening of Lodovico Pignatti Morano and Trine Riel’s video presentation ‘A Calculated Askēsis: Serial Euphoria and its long-term problems’
       
    16.00 Rachal Bradley, Real Estate n' Cars 
    16.30 David Morris, Kraus Uncut: On Semiotext(e), Disclosure, and Not-Knowing
    17.30 Performative reading by Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
    18.00 Reading by Chris Kraus

    Thursday 14 March

    15.00-17.00
    Screening of selected films by Chris Kraus
     19.00-20.30 
    Chris Kraus in conversation with Nina Power and Travis Jeppesen


    The conference is open to all. Tickets (to cover the costs of refreshments and lunch on 13 March) are £25/£15 and can be booked here

    http://worldpay.rca.ac.uk/aliensandanorexia

    The conference abstracts will be available for download from this page soon.

    The conference will take place in the Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, Royal College of Art, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN

    Chris Kraus is also planning to screen two films in conjunction with her recent publication Kelly Lake Store and Other Stories as well as some short films by Ruth Novaczek. You can find more information about the event here.

    Buses

    From Victoria Station: 170 to Battersea Bridge; from South Kensington: 49 & 345 to Parkgate Road; from Green Park or Sloane Square: 19 & 319 to Battersea Bridge

    For other conference-related queries please email cwad@rca.ac.uk