It is our great pleasure to invite you all to join us for the upcoming EBL Hybrid Seminar with our speaker: Berlin-based independent artist and researcher Dr Margherita Pevere (IT/DE), and the respondent Prof. Em. Nina Lykke (Linköping University, SE), focused on “Arts of Vulnerability”. The event takes place on 16th June at 10:15-11:45 CEST in the room I:102, D building, Campus Valla Linköping, and on Zoom.
For Zoom participation, please register: https://bit.ly/48Sjksu
Dr Pevere is an affiliated member of The Eco- and Bioart Lab and a visiting researcher at Tema G/EBL in week 25.
The EBL Hybrid Seminar will be followed by an event with Dr Pevere in the series of Tema G Higher Seminars – also on 16th June at 13:15-15:00. Read more HERE.
Both events are included in the programme of artistic research activities within Forma LiU, a joint strategic initiative by the Faculties of Educational Sciences, Arts and Sciences, and Science and Engineering. Forma LiU aims to strengthen creative, design, and aesthetic activities at Linköping University and support new interdisciplinary collaborations across the university. The initiative is run on behalf of the faculties by Stefan Holmlid, Karin Bertills, Konstantin Economou, Anna Ingemark, Andreas Eklöf, Linda Lattik Ekvall, Renee Wever, Alessandra di Pisa, Paul Resch and Marietta Radomska.
Arts of vulnerability
Abstract:
What does it mean to be vulnerable — and what may leaks tell us about bodies and environments in queer and posthuman terms?
The artistic research by Dr Margherita Pevere addresses the question by means of bioart, performance, and writing. Burnt soil, slugs, cellulose-producing bacteria, bioreagents, drawing, writing: diverse materials constellate her artistic research and come together in celebration of leaky matters and relations. Alongside discussing the artworks Wombs and Lament, the artist will guide us in a nuanced discussion in feminist and queer terms about materiality, vulnerability, and the entanglements of life and death. What emerges are two concepts: ‘arts of vulnerability’ and ‘poetics of uncontainability’, which, while coming from the arts, may have something to say about these very unstable times.
Dr Pevere’s dissertation “Arts of vulnerability. Queering leaks in artistic research and bioart” can be downloaded at https://margheritapevere.com/writings/
Bio:
Known internationally for her otherworldly work with living matter, ecology and biotechnology, Margherita Pevere is an artist and researcher addressing taboos like death, sex and vulnerability. Her practice embraces object-making, installation, performance, and writing, which she waves seamlessly thanks to her transdisciplinary background. Her project Lament on wildfire ecologies was awarded the COAL Prize / Transformative territories mention (2024) and she was nominated for the Falling Walls Awards / Category Art and Science (2023) for the body of work around her concept ‘arts of vulnerability’. Her doctorate in artistic research (Aalto University) focused on bioart and queer and feminist studies.
The Eco- and Bioart Lab 