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Reconfiguring Transitional Space: Queer Negativity, Trans Imaginaries, and Impossible Bodies

Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack open the delusions of binary gender and hyper-normativity, bringing forth expansive modes of being and thinking. This episode invites all to experience the pleasure and potency of nuanced subversion and non-conformity.

 

About Our Guests

Griffin Hansbury headshotGriffin Hansbury, LCSW-R, is the author of several books, including Feral City (as Jeremiah Moss) and the Stonewall Award-winning novel Some Strange Music Draws Me In. His writing on the city has appeared in many publications, including n+1, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. His clinical writing has received the Ralph Roughton Paper Award and appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, among other journals. He practices as a psychoanalyst in New York City.
Follow these links to learn more about Griffin’s work:
griffinhansburywriter.com
griffinhansbury.com

 
 

Jyoti M. Rao headshotKris Grey is a New York City based transgender artist who uses their body as raw material, often presenting themselves in states of extreme vulnerability as an invitation to experience transcendence or discover hidden queer histories. Grey’s cultural work includes curatorial projects, performance, writing, and studio production. Grey has been a resident artist at the Bronx Museum, Fire Island Artist Residency, ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art, International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts, Wave Hill, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson. Grey’s writing, Trans*feminism: fragmenting and re-reading the history of art through a trans* perspective, was published by Manchester University Press in Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Grey earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Ohio University. They perform, teach, and exhibit work internationally.
Follow these links to learn more about Kris Grey’s work:
Tension & Tethers Artist Lecture SVA 2024 (one hour)
Kris Grey Website
Kris Grey Instagram

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