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Over the final weekend of the exhibition I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, the ICA brings together scholarly presentations on Acker’s work on Saturday 3 August and a new performance by Los Angeles-based artist Johanna Hedva on Sunday 4 August.
The Labyrinth centres on a series of presentations from scholars and those engaged with maintaining and furthering the legacy of Acker’s work, extending her lines of thought from artistic, literary and theoretical perspectives. Drawing on close textual readings, the symposium considers Acker’s output – and its relationship to other literary histories – as an engine for new relations, ideas and possibilities.
The spatial movement through knowledge and language – from philosopher George Bataille’s figure of the labyrinth to artist Alison Knowles’ The Big Book – plays a key role in presentations that also consider Acker’s approach to identity, myth, mysticism, gender and sexuality. The symposium features contributions from scholar Georgina Colby, writer Claire Finch, curator of the Kathy Acker Reading Room Daniel Schulz, and artist and writer Matias Viegener. Following individual presentations, a group discussion will be led by writer and critical theorist Isabel Waidner.
02:00 pm
Sat, 03 Aug 2019
Cinema 1
£7 Full, £5 Green/Concs, £3 Blue Members
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