Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism) will give a short illustrated talk on the collaborative practice of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, focusing on questions of authorship, myth-making, and reinvention.
The talk will be followed by a hands-on collage workshop inviting participants to work with ideas of myth, disguise, doubling, and transformation. Using collage as both a critical and creative tool, the session encourages participants to think through how Surrealist strategies can be reactivated in the present.
No prior experience with collage is required. Basic materials provided; participants are welcome to bring their own
£8 or according to pocket
Felicity Gee is Associate Professor of modern literatures and Avant-Garde Studies at the University of Exeter and President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism. Her research focuses on Surrealism, collaboration, gender, and myth in modernist art and writing.
Her work pays particular attention to collective practice and to figures whose contributions have been marginalised or obscured within canonical histories of Surrealism.
Recent Publications:
Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde, (Routledge); Ontogenesis as Revolt: René Magritte’s Universe. In: Eddy, C. (Ed) Speculative Affect. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham; Shadow Dance’s ‘extreme eclecticism’: Magic-realist painting in the Carterian tradition. In S. Gamble & A. Watz (Ed.). Angela Carter’s Futures: Representations, Adaptations and Legacies (pp. 85–106). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Forthcoming:
Valentine Penrose: Artist, Surrealist, Poet, Voyager (Bloomsbury, Studies in Transnational Surrealism).Related Events
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Reading Cancelled Confessions with Susan de Muth (Saturday 7 February)
Mapping Anonymity workshop (Sunday 15 February)
