Drawing dust

Drawing dust - A research paper delivered at talking dirty online conference.

Let’s Talk ‘Dirty’! An online symposium exploring ‘dirty’ matters.

An online symposium that brings together a wide range of researchers, practice-researches and artists united in their study of ‘dirty’ matters. Spread across three days, with four panels on the following themes: Gender and Sexual Politics, Place and the Institution, Geographies and Ecologies, and Materialities. While some talks will approach the subject by interrogating classificatory systems, others will look closely at the materiality of ‘dirt’ itself.

These events will bring together a wide range of researchers, practice-researchers, and artists and consist of four sessions on each of the following themes: Gender and Sexual Politics, Place and the Institution, Geographies and Ecologies, and Materialities.

Some of the events include: ‘Doin’ ya mom’: Drawing Maternal Desire as an Abject Mother; Welcome The Vagabonds! Art and Labor in the Era of Dirty Capitalism; My dear T-shirt: journeys of second-hand clothes and other intimate material objects, and a slow reading session of ‘Tidy Whiteness’.

Let’s Talk ‘Dirty’!
Loughborough University