The New Museum in New York presents We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium, on May 4–5, 2012, in the New Museum Theater.
Leading up to the exhibition, “We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium” will investigate what is at stake and what is made possible by embracing difference as a queer strategy within contemporary art, politics, and society. The two-day symposium was conceived by performance artist and scholar Raegan Truax and artist Carlos Motta, and will be moderated by Ann Pellegrini, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. Symposium participants include: Julian Carter, Associate Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts; Mathias Danbolt, editor of Trikster – Nordic Queer Journal; Dr. Tiger Howard Devore, intersex activist and certified sex therapist; Reina Gossett, community organizer; E. Patrick Johnson, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University; Heather Love, author of Feeling Backwards: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia: The Politics and Performance of Queer Futurity; Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, trans activist, sexologist, and professor, University of Agder, Norway; and Emily Roysdon, artist. A performance by Malik Gaines will close Friday’s program. Please click here for the full schedule.
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