Mel Y. Chen, "Intoxication, Disability and the Question of Indistinction"

Date: 

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

This will be a two-part talk that hopes to be conversational in its invitation. The ensemble is meant to invoke modalities of feeling and thought that Mel Y. Chen aims to attach to questions of method. Rather than being centered firmly on a “we” that projects fantasied rational practitioners of thought, Chen will work questions of intoxication with and around art that engages/indicts colonial racial schemes of intoxication, as well as with disabled and trans/transspecies being that, for better and worse, becomes targeted in the perception of challenges to normative reproductive schemes — both in discourse, and within changing climates. Ultimately, the talk inquires about the place of indistinction for knowledge or worldmaking, and the challenges therein.

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