An open and recorded discussion for publication from readings by Emma Balkind
in response to Being Together is not Enough.
Readings:
Emma Balkind - Autoimmunity: A Self-Destructive Service
(Self-Service*: 2018)
Roberto Esposito - Melancholia and Community; Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics; translated by Rhiannon Noel Welch (p.27-36)
Emma Balkind is a discursive curator, writer and lecturer based in Glasgow, Scotland. She recently completed an AHRC funded PhD on the concept of the commons in contemporary art. Her current interests lie in the intersection between political philosophy and the literature of transgression in reflections on sickness and the notion of immunity. She previously curated the reading group series Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women with Laura Edbrook in collaboration with MAP. Emma is Associate Faculty on the MLitt in Curatorial Practice at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow.
* The text Autoimmunity: A Self-Destructive Service was commissioned as a contribution to Self-Service, a project curated by Kirsty Hendry and Ilona Sagar as part of Glasgow International 2018. Self-Service took the form of a publication and event series (at Centre for Contemporary Art). It was produced in response to the archives of The Peckham Experiment - a radical vision for encouraging health, local empowerment and self-organisation.
Edward Dorrian is an artist and member of Five Years (organising Being Together is not Enough.) He is currently a candidate PhD student at Kingston School of Art - Working out of a contested common ground: A politics of drawing as collectivity and organisation.
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Sunday 27 May 2018
1-2pm
Nothing In Common?
Emma Balkind & Edward Dorrian
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