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Join queer-feminist theorist, artist and historian Jill H. Casid at the Bureau on Friday, February 17th at 5 PM for the launch of the Spanish translation of her book, Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección. A reading with special guests and a book signing will be followed by a reception.
Guest readers include Camilo Godoy, Vick Quezada, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz.
About Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección:
Theorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution: the projecting telescope, camera obscura, magic lantern, solar microscope, and prism. From the beginnings of what is retrospectively enshrined as the origins of the Enlightenment and in the wake of colonization, the scene of projection has functioned as a contraption for creating a fantasy subject of discarnate vision for the exercise of “reason.”
Jill H. Casid demonstrates across a range of sites that the scene of projection is neither a static diagram of power nor a fixed architecture but rather a pedagogical setup that operates as an influencing machine of persistent training. Thinking with queer and feminist art projects that take up old devices for casting an image to reorient this apparatus of power that produces its subject, Scenes of Projection offers a set of theses on the possibilities for felt embodiment out of the damaged and difficult pasts that haunt our present.
Escenas de proyección toma los instrumentos proyectivos de la revolución científica –desde el telescopio de proyección y la cámara oscura, hasta la luz solar y el microscopio– para demostrar que la escena es un complejo dispositivo de poder que produce su propio sujeto. En la medida que saca al yo de su vulnerabilidad e instala la fantasía de una visión de un sujeto racional e inmanente respecto de todas las figuras minoritarias, raciales, queer, feminizadas, perpetúa una estructura de dominación.
A lo largo de este libro, Jill H. Casid nos lleva desde los orígenes míticos de la representación hasta instancias ejemplares del arte contemporáneo, con el objetivo de explorar el potencial de transformación de las tecnologías de proyección e invertir su dirección en virtud de posiciones no normativas. Es decir, traza conexiones reprimidas entre elementos de la escena y elementos que cruzan de una escena a otra, para así abrirla y reinventar el sujeto, inaugurar devenires, liberar el potencial del por qué-no, del no no-aquí y del no no-todavía.
Copies of Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección (both English and Spanish versions) will be available for purchase at the event.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
About Casid:
A queer-feminist theorist, historian and artist, Casid holds the position of Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005) and Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which has just been released by Metales Pesados in Spanish translation, Casid is currently bringing to completion Photogenic: Essays on Refusing Photography and Necrolandscaping, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York and Documenta 15.
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Camilo Godoy is an artist and educator born in Bogotá and based in New York City. He has participated in residencies at Movement Research, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), coleção moraes-barbosa, Recess, New Dance Alliance, among others. Godoy’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, CUE, OCDChinatown, PROXYCO Gallery, New York; Moody Center, Houston; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; among others. He has performed at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, New York; Toronto Biennial; and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. Godoy teaches at Bard College, Parsons School of Design, Recess, Whitney Museum, and School of Visual Arts.
Vick Quezada grew up in El Paso, Texas right where the United States and Juarez, Mexico border converge. Quezada currently lives in Western Massachusetts where they are a Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. Quezada is currently a Yale Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Additionally, in 2023 their works will be shown at Des Moines Art Center, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Artspace New Haven, Atlantic Wharf Gallery Boston, American Museum of Ceramic Art Pomona, and Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, TX. In 2021, they were a select recipient of the Andrew W.Mellon Fellowship co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation in Latinx art. In 2020 Quezada was hand selected from a “large-scale survey” of 40 emerging artists from the US and Puerto Rico to be featured in El Museo del Barrio’s groundbreaking, La Trienal. From 2019-20 Quezada was the artist-in-residence at the Latinx Project at NYU where they gave public talks, and workshops. In 2018, Quezada was selected as the University Massachusetts Contemporary Arts -University Massachusetts at Amherst Curatorial Fellow, along with Fred Wilson, who curated the show, 5 Takes On African Art. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Art News, Trans Studies Quarterly, and Remezcla. Quezada holds a BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from UMASS Amherst.
Catalina Schliebener Muñoz is a Sudamerican, Chilean-born visual artist who works primarily with collage, installation, and murals. Their work draws on images, objects, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender, sexuality, and class. Their work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, NY), Children’s Museum of Manhattan (New York, NY), Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA), Centro Cultural de España (Santiago, Chile), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Center for Books Arts (New York, NY), Catalyst Arts (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Hache Galería (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Galería Jardín Oculto (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Galería Metropolitana (Santiago, Chile), and Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York, NY), among others. A recipient of multiple FONDART Grants (Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile), Schliebener Muñoz also received grants from DIRAC (Board of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY). They also received a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017), and an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018). In addition, Schliebener Muñoz has extensive teaching experience, from early childhood education to undergraduate education, on topics ranging from philosophy and art theory to art instruction in schools, studios, and museum settings. They are currently working as a teaching artist with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and The Queens Museum, and they facilitate gender and sexuality trainings for the Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY). They received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS; Santiago, Chile).