Forum #5 - Guilia Damiani with Kristen Kreider

01 Nov 2018

Writer and PhD researcher Guilia Damiani (Goldsmiths) presents new writing entitled As Enchentes Entre Os Incêndios (trans. the water rivulets among the fire) alongside an excerpt from *The Passion According to GH by writer Clarice Lispector, and artist, writer and Professor of Fine Art Kristen Kreider joins us in discussion.

Guilia Damiani is a writer and curator based in London, completing a PhD in Art at Goldsmiths University (AHRC scholarship). She specialises in performance and collaborates with artists to create performances from archival and feminist practices. She is currently a Research and Writing Fellow at the institution If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam. – giuliadamiani.eu

Kristen Kreider is a writer and artist. Her research stems from an interest in the poetics of thought, its materialization as form, and a concern with how artworks relate to the world. She has published poetry, essays, journal articles and a single-authored monograph entitled Poetics & Place: The Architecture of Sign, Subject and Site (IB Tauris, 2014). The latter explores how specific artworks generate meaning through a ‘material poetics’ in relation to place, develops a critical methodology for engaging with them, and investigates their ethical potential and political imperative. The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics of relation, opening a debate concerning the role of empathy within contemporary, politically-engaged practices in art and poetry. – gold.ac.uk/art/staff/kreider-kristen