Scientia Sexualis Convening: Reckoning and Repair (Day 3)
In conjunction with the exhibition Scientia Sexualis, ICA LA offers a three-day convening titled Reckoning and Repair to facilitate deep engagement with the exhibition’s timely themes. The weekend will include dynamic conversations between artists, writers, curators, researchers, and historians committed to in-depth explorations of the intersections of art, sex, and science from the perspectives of trans, feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial studies.
Convening participants include: Panteha Abareshi, Jennifer Doyle, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain, Hil Malatino, Perwana Nazif, El Palomar, Kerstin Schroedinger, C. Riley Snorton, P. Staff, and Jeanne Vaccaro.
Friday, February 28
5PM-6PM: Exhibition walkthrough of Scientia Sexualis with co-curators Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro and convening participants.
6PM-7PM: Reception.
7PM–8:30PM: Scholar Hil Malatino, whose research spans women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, ethics, and philosophy, will deliver a keynote lecture theorizing embodiment as it stretches across disability politics and trans liberation.
Saturday, March 1
1PM–2:30PM: A conversation between three Scientia Sexualis artists, Nicki Green, Kerstin Schroedinger, and Oliver Husain, whose work explores counter-histories of community care, centering mutual aid and queer care networks.
3PM–4:30PM: Scientia Sexualis artists Panteha Abareshi and P. Staff will consider the overlapping currents in their work. Working across media, both artists turn to the apparatus of the scientific and medical to unearth the tensions between care and violation, discipline and dissent.
Sunday, March 2
1PM–2:30PM: Writer Perwana Nazif and artist collective El Palomar, whose work is on view in Scientia Sexualis, revisit one of Freud’s famous case studies, recuperating its trans feminine potentiality and queering the heteronormative impulses of psychoanalysis.
3PM–4:30PM: Leading scholar in Black and trans studies C. Riley Snorton joins Scientia Sexualis co-curators Jeanne Vaccaro and Jennifer Doyle for a conversation about the politics of exhibition-making, museum collections, and display.
El Palomar is an artist collective created in Barcelona in 2013 by Ama Sánchez and R. Marcos Mota. In continuous experimentation and hybridization of languages, they work in a wide variety of disciplines (video, performance, music, editions and curatorial projects), promoting research and productions, structuring from artistic practice critical discourses on the memory and meaning of the trans and non-binary communities. They received the Miquel Casablancas award in 2017, the Ojo Crítico award in 2020 and have participated in the 11th Berlin Biennale. In addition to their independent career, they have curated projects for Casal Solleric, A*Desk, and Kunsthaus Baselland. Their work has been presented in museums such as Fundació Miró, Centro Párraga, La Capella, Haus der Kunst der Welt Berlin, MUSAC, CentroCentro, La Térmica, Frankfurter Kunstverein, NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Patio Herreriano, MACBA and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art at NYC, among others. In addition, they …
Perwana Nazif is a writer and programmer. She is the Art Director at the Los Angeles Review of Books and the contributing editor at Parapraxis Magazine.
C. Riley Snorton is a visiting professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature and with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. He is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (UMN 2017), Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (UMN 2014), and co-editor of The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt UP 2024) and Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (MIT/New Museum 2020). He is also the co-editor of GLQ.
Major support for Reckoning and Repair is provided by Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support provided by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Lead funding for Scientia Sexualis is provided by the Getty Foundation. The exhibition is also generously funded by Angeles Art Fund, Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Karen Hillenburg, Kelsey Lee Offield and Cole Sternberg, Pasadena Art Alliance, and Laura Donnelley. Additional support provided by Ellen and Bill Taubman.
Major support for the publication is provided by the University of California, Riverside.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.
Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries font courtesy GenderFail. Eliza font courtesy Camelot Typeface.
Scientia Sexualis is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a landmark regional event exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information, please visit pst.art.
