[csaa-forum] REMINDER: Queer Animation - Public Lecture by Professor J. Jack Halberstam Friday 1st August

[Cristyn Davies]

QUEER ANIMATION

A public lecture by Professor J. Jack Halberstam

Author of:
Female Masculinity
In a Queer time and Place, and
The Drag King Book with Del LaGrace Volcano

Sponsored by the Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node and the
College of Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Abstract
I want to lay out a thesis about a new genre of animated feature films
that use Computer Generated Image (CGI) technology instead of standard
linear animation techniques and that surprisingly foreground the themes
of revolution and transformation. I will call this genre "Pixarvolt" in
order to link the technology to the thematic focus and I will show that
in the new animation films certain topics that would simply never appear
in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of these
narratives. Furthermore, and perhaps even more surprisingly, the
Pixarvolt films make subtle as well as overt connections between
communitarian revolt and queer embodiment and thereby articulate, in
ways that theory and popular narrative have not, the sometimes
counter-intuitive links between queerness and socialist struggle. And
so, while queer politics are often caricatured by Marxists as "body
politics" or as simply superficial, these films recognize that
alternative forms of embodiment and desire are central to the struggle
against corporate domination.

When
Friday, 1st August 2008
6pm for 6.30 start

Where
The Powerhouse Museum
500 Harris Street Ultimo
Coles Theatre
Enter main doors from Harris Street Forecourt
Gallery Officer will direct guests to ramp to Level 2 Theatres

Tickets
$25
$20 (student and pensioner concession)
Ticket price includes booking fees and GST. Handling fees may apply.
To purchase tickets call Ticketek on 132-849, or visit
<www.Ticketek.com.au>

Public Transport
Central Station is the closest railway station to the Powerhouse Museum.
>From Central Station take the eastern exits to Railway Square/George
Street. Turn left into George Street and then right into Harris Street.
Walk down Harris Street for 5-10 minutes until you reach the Museum on
your right. For further information:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/visit/howtogethere.asp

Parking
Parking for the Powerhouse Museum is available at the Entertainment
Centre Car Park on Darling Drive. The Level 3A RED parking area is the
most convenient to the covered walkway connecting the parking station to
the Museum (a two minute walk). When tickets are validated at the
Museum, a special flat rate of $11.50 (inc GST) applies.


Cristyn Davies
Justice of the Peace for NSW
Researcher
Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy research node 
University of Western Sydney-
Bankstown campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA 
Ph. 61 2 9772 6784 
Fax. 61 2 9772 6738 
Email: c.m.davies at uws.edu.au 


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