FLP regular Parumveer Walia joins us for another amazing session - a cross-cultural study of female photographers harnessing the studio as a space of meaning-making and performance
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Investigating the parallel of performing for a camera as connected to quotidian performances in systemic and ideological frameworks, Women Artists have been turning to the photographic to examine, at large, the ways in which we perform. The performance of femininity and womanhood, its expectations and roles are all made subject to intervention in the works of artists like Cindy Sherman, presenting imagery in the muddled space of the familiar and the exotic, the seemingly authentic and the obviously staged. For artists like Pushpamala N, this looks like a forceful insertion of her body into ideological landscapes of nationhood, coloniality, and the divine feminine, to recontextualize these ideas to reflect her concerns (as seen in her Mother India series).
By studying these works, and other photographers of the kind, Parumveers lecture will be a guide in beginning to understand performativity as an artistic tool and theoretical framework, and how it has been historically used to intervene upon culture. Sign up for a cross-cultural study of female photographers harnessing the studio (or, in turn, the expanded studio) as a space of meaning-making and performance!
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Parumveer Walia is an emerging photographer and writer/curator born in Chandigarh, India and currently working from the unceded and stolen territories in so-called British Columbia, Canada. Walias practice examines systemic frameworks that define us into gender and shapes the political experience of occupying a Body, approached in his practice through a Queer and intimate lens.
His rigorously maintained practice has seen him acclaimed internationally. Notably, his works have been exhibited at Gallery 881 in Canada (2024) and in Poland with BINNAR (2021). He is currently an art writer-in-residence at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and a filmmaker with the Response program with the Polygon Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. After completing a residency in Serbia with the Belgrade Art Studios (2021), his photography and writing was published in the photobook Photology, which was since been acquired for the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, as well as the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales.
Walia has been engaged with Art History and Culture education since years, leading workshops and seminars with ACG Studios (2021), teaching with local arts organizations in Chandigarh, and has previously been a lecturer on the Feminist Lecture Program with the London Drawing Group as well (2022).
Instagram: @parumveer.art
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 16th September
Kitty Underhill (she/her)
Where do Flaws Come From?: Bellies, Bodies and the Social Construction of
Imperfection
Monday 23rd September
N.A. Kimber (she/her) and K.E. Donoghue-Stanford (she/her)
Death and the Maiden: Femininity in the Gothic
Monday 30th September
Carolina Hades (she/her)
Pole Dancing Against the Algorithm
Monday 7th October
Janine Francois (she/they)
Black {Gendered} Space Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space
Monday 14th October
Parumveer Walia (he/him)
Staged Bodies: Performativity in Feminist Photography
Monday 21st October
Isobel Atacus (she/they)
Eva Hesse: Imagining the Unruly
Monday 28th October
Gudrun Filipska (she/her)
Feminism and Zombie Culture
Monday 4th November
Anna Titov (she/her)
Cyborgs, Transcorporeality and Volatile Bodies: Ecofeminist Theories of Embodiment
Monday 11th November
COMING SOON
Monday 18th November
Melissa Baksh (she/her)
Whitewashed? Whiteness and Femininity in Art History
Monday 25th November
Dr. Noam Yadin Evron (she/her)
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Artist, Composer, Pioneer
Monday 2nd December
COMING SOON
Monday 9th December
Baylee Woodley (they/them)
Medieval Femmes: Queer Femininities in Medieval England
Monday 16th December
Summer Lee (she/her)
The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie
RECORDING
A recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares.
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Please note that the recording will expire 7 days after sending.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of 20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.
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And that's it!
We're really looking forward to you joining us x
