Online Talks
What is an Island
Galápagos Listening School, Skibbereen, Ireland, 2019.
Blue Ocean Being
The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels, College Art Association Conference. New York, NY, 13th Feb 2020.
Towards A Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene
Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation, Messy Studios event. TBA-21 Academy, 15th, June 2020.
Messy Studio: Pacific Futures
TBA-21 Academy, Ocean Uni panel discussion, June 2020.
Island Imaginaries in the Anthropocene
Launch of MA Art and Environment Programme, TU Dublin, 8th Oct 2020.
Bodies Drawn In and by Water
There has been a long conversation in Caribbean Studies about the oceanic imaginary in which the sea represents simultaneous origins and the future (of climate change); a sacred space of the orishas and ancestors; the fluidity of identity; the maternal body; the terrors of the Middle Passage and Kala Pani; and the more recent refugee experiences of balseros and botpippel. I place these conversations in relation to feminist theorist Astrida Neimanis’s universal claim that “we are all bodies of water, in the constitutional, the genealogical, and the geographical sense.” I examine theories of embodied fluidity and flow in relation to the ontological turn to wet matter at a critical moment of sea-level rise in the Anthropocene. I bring together the visual work of Caribbean artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cuba/US) and Deborah Jack (St Martin/US) in relation to their differing visual allegories of oceanic embodiment. Cold war legacies have long rendered the planetary ocean as an “inner space” counter to an extraterritorial “outer space.” Telescoping between the scales of climate change and weather, and between outer and inner space, the paper explores the ways in which these two women artists render allegories of the Anthropocene as well as embodied sea ontologies emerging “in the wake” of Black Atlantic crossings. STUDIUM GENERALE RIETVELD ACADEMIE, Amsterdam, March 2022.
Lunchtime Colloquium with Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Nakul Heroor
Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA) and Nakul Heroor (Rachel Carson Center) present on “Discourses on Rising Waters: Stories and Politics” in response to Amitav Ghosh’s residency in Munich. November 2024.