Colloquia Spring 2018

Join us for a Valentine’s evening colloquium with Prof. JV Fuqua. Fuqua will be sharing updates from their own-going documentation at sites of environmental precarity, including Post-Katrina New Orleans; Detroit, Michigan; Treece, Kansas; and Dead Horse Bay in New York City. Fuqua writes that this “Proximities Archive” “represents my engagements with and documentations of ecological and industrial precarity, hazard, and toxicity. These places impinge upon human and nonhuman capacities…. I am interested in how events and their so-called aftermaths rub up against each other in strange ways. The remains of these events are shiny, opaque, fragile, noxious, chemical, plastic, glass, mineral, salt, rotting, living, sharp, banal, alluring, pungent, bright, smooth, and coarse. I record sounds and images. I listen. I look. I go without an agenda — more or less. Human and nonhuman forces entangle in unexpected, queer ways.”