intersections
2016
Sept 19-20 : Third annual gender and sexualities postgraduate conference
Moving with, against and beyond theories of intersectionality
TAKING PLACE
Sept 19-20, 2016
Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, University of South Australia, City West
Adelaide SA
The aim of this conference is to bring together postgraduate students from across South Australia to share their work and research with their peers and to continue building a collegial and collaborative environment for South Australian and Australian students.
This year's theme aims to explore the multitude of ways in which gender, sexuality and other related issues intersect, and the implications thus arising. Intersectionality describes the ways in which oppressive institutions including but not limited to sexism, classism, racism, transphobia and homophobia should be examined in an interconnected manner.
intersections 2016 representative art piece
Up for It
Imogen Porteous, 2016, Acrylic and PVA on canvas 96 x 102cm
I am currently developing a body of work titled, Second Nature, that engages with the manifestation of gender identity, sexuality and female embodiment. The paintings create a dialogue between the concept of the fluid nature identity, cultural influence and autobiographical experience as a young artist identifying as a woman. I have a strong interest in the way gender and sexuality is perceived in our digital media culture. The pieces are produced through a process of engagement with the material, applied using my body to create gesture and movement. Up for It (pictured above) invites the viewer to look closer, the combinations of red, magenta, white and black shift upon the surface, creating a wave through the darkened space. Light play on the canvas reveals textual elements in the black gloss, which echo my discontent for the media’s ‘passive’ and ‘sexually available’ female subject. Up For It references the way women are portrayed in the media as available objects often conveyed as vacant vessels for the heterosexual male observer.
Imogen Porteous is an emerging visual artist based in Adelaide, SA. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) in 2015, and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art and Creative Practice at the University of South Australia. Imogen’s practice explores contemporary feminisms and personal experience through figurative and abstract mixed media painting.
SPONSORS
We would like to thank the following Universities and associations for their generous support: UniSA Research Centre for Gender Studies (RCGS), Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA), Flinders University, and the University of Adelaide.
We also wish to acknowledge the Hawke Research Institute for supporting this event.
CONTACT US
For other questions and comments email intersectionsSA2016@gmail.com