Imperiled ground, imperiled body

Belladonna and CUNY Graduate Center present

a free panel discussion

Is Ground as to Figure as Ambience is to Body? Ec(h)opoetics of the Disfigured 'Land'scape

Fri, Sept 25, 10am

Room 1, Panel 1
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, Manhattan

Discussion Organizer and Moderator: Jennifer Scappettone. Panel Members: Marcella Durand, Brenda Lijima, Kathy Westwater, Rita Wong and Linda Sormin

This discussion will sound reciprocal interference between the environment and marked (raced/gendered/polluted) corporeality in the face of landscape's harm-mediation-digitization-withdrawal. Presentations will address a poetics of systemic crisis, stalking solutions, obliging recognition of ambient relations of authority and compromise as compass through a stupefying enormity of damage: Marcella Durand on race and ecological disaster; Brenda Lijima on Agnes Denes's reclamation art; Kathy Westwater on bodily organization within transmogrifying 'nature'; Rita Wong and Linda Sormin on ongoing toxicities.

This discussion is part of the Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism Conference and is sponsored by Belladonna and CUNY Graduate Center: Center For Humanities, Poetics Group, the PhD Program in English and the Center for the Study of Women and Society. For more info: belladonna