As the closing celebration of the artist-philosopher's 3-day residency on campus, join Lynne Huffer to view her collage installation in the Campus Center alongside the Bryn Mawr community's collaged responses to her work. Creative discussion welcome.

Campus Center 105
Friday 3/22 12noon-1pm

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Fragments: Experimental Practices in the Anthropocene
A residency with Artist-Philosopher Lynne Huffer
Wednesday to Friday, March 20-22, 2024

Lynne Huffer is a scholar of French literature, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Philosophy. During a 3-day residency, she introduces us to her forthcoming book, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction, and shares her experimental approach to the writing process. Drawing from poetry, philosophy, geology, environmentalism, film, and other fields of research and practice, she generates an immersive collage environment that juxtaposes material fragments in an interdisciplinary, interactive, and reparative engagement with the beauty and devastation of our time. 

While on campus, Huffer will reconstruct the largescale, ongoing word/image collage installation that is part of her larger project of interdisciplinary experimentation in philosophy, poetry, and the visual arts. All are invited to experience and contribute your own thread to Huffer’s “intellectual collage.” Come cut, arrange, paste, join, tie, and hang your own visual fragments, making meaning through juxtapositions in dialog. 

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and author of a trilogy on Foucault’s ethics of eros, Foucault’s Strange Eros (2020), Are the Lips a Grave? (2013), and Mad for Foucault (2010). Her most recent work explores ethics of living and extinction in the era of the Anthropocene.

Schedule of Events

Center for Visual Culture Weekly Colloquium
These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction
Wednesday, March 20, 12.30-2pm
Old Library 224

Collaborative Installation
Fragments: Experimental Practices in the Anthropocene
Thursday, March 21, 9am-9pm and Friday, March 22, 9am-12pm
Campus Center 105

Closing Celebration
Friday Finds
Friday, March 22, noon-1pm, Campus Center 105