Oreet Ashery: gender materiality
Saturday 4 March 2017 3 - 4.30pm
Keeper's Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£8, £5 concessions, free for carers.
Join artist and visiting professor Oreet Ashery for a roundtable discussion exploring how gender can be used as material for artwork.
As gender moves beyond the binary of male/female dichotomies, artists are looking at gender subversion as material for their work. Artist and visiting professor Oreet Ashery will guide a conversation exploring how gender can be used as material for artistic practice. The discussion will focus on the way Ashery’s current and past practice in performance explores gender as a mode of power apparatus and how methods like bio-fiction, infiltration and digital media can be used to further the conversation in gender politics.
Oreet Ashery is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art and a Fine Art Fellow at Stanley Picker Gallery, where she has developed a web series titled Revisiting Genesis, launched in Spring 2016. Ashery’s work engages with the appearance of the political and eccentric in art, bio and political-fiction, gender materiality and potential communities. Ashery’s practice spans live situations and performances, moving image, photography, workshops, writing and assemblages.
This event invites audiences to participate in a round-table discussion in the Keeper's Studio. We encourage ticket holders to bring thoughts and perspectives to share with others and generate an informed debate.
International Women’s Day 2017 at the Royal Academy
To mark International Women’s Day 2017, the Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a week of talks, workshops and tours to explore ideas of gender, material and identity in art. Focusing on women artists across different RA exhibitions and the RA Collection, join us to discover some of the under-acknowledged accomplishments of women artists throughout history.