Queer and Trans Abstractions in Contemporary Art, a talk by Lex Morgan Lancaster

Name: Queer and Trans Abstractions in Contemporary Art, a talk by Lex Morgan Lancaster
Start: 2025-02-06T16:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-06T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 613 E. College Ave., Appleton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54911

Schedule

Thu Feb 06 2025 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

613 E. College Ave., Appleton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54911 | Appleton, WI

Lex Morgan Lancaster (they/them) is a scholar and curator who focuses on queer, trans, anti-racist, and crip contributions to the field of contemporary art.
While representation is historically central to queer and trans politics, abstraction has become a major tactic of queer and trans art practices that undermine easy legibility in favor of formal and material experimentation. Lex Lancaster’s book, Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (Duke University Press, 2022), investigates this phenomenon by forging a formalist and materialist approach to take abstraction seriously as queer processes rather than a style or “look.” In this talk, Lancaster also considers sculptures and installations that demonstrate trans tactics of abstraction that destabilize normative ontological processes and perceptions by working with the everyday material forces that shape individual and collective bodies.
Organized by the Dept of Art History, Sponsored by the Jordan Fund for the Arts.
Image: Cover of Dragging Away, Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (2022) by Lex Morgan Lancaster