Kara Walker's Pornopticon

Centre for Research in Race and Rights and Department of American and Canadian Studies Visiting Speaker 2014-15

Professor Robyn Wiegman, Duke University: "Kara Walker's Pornopticon: Racial  Sensations", including public conversation with Zoe Trodd 

Kara Walker is one of best known African American artists working today,  celebrated for her challenging explorations of race, gender, sexuality,  violence and identity. Leading U.S. professor of race and gender, Robyn  Wiegman, is in the UK for a few days only and will draw on theories of  anti-racist aesthetics to analyze the toxic ecologies of race and sexuality  in US culture and Walker's work as a provocative "pornopticon". Professor  Wiegman's books include Object Lessons (2012), Women's Studies on Its Own  (2002), and American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995). Kara  Walker’s exhibitions include Emancipating the Past (2014), Rise Up Ye Mighty  Race! (2013), A Negress of Noteworthy Talent (2011), The Black Road (2008)  and Slavery!, Slavery! (2002).

Please join us for this special lecture in collaboration with The New Art  Exchange, Britain's largest gallery dedicated to culturally diverse  contemporary visual arts. Free, open to all, please register at https://karawalker.eventbrite.co.uk