Elizabeth Grosz: "A Thousand Tiny Architects? Art and the Animal"

A public talk in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies by Professor Elizabeth Grosz, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This talk, the first in this year's Departmental Speaker Series, addresses the inhuman, animal conditions of art by exploring the relevance of the works of Darwin and Uexküll on sexual and artistic attraction for understanding the human enframing of art. If art is of the animal, this paper explores what the animal makes of its world, and how this provides the conditions for all of the human arts.

Made Possible by a Mini-Beatty Grant and co-sponsored with the McGill Department of East Asian Studies, and The Departments of Comparative Literature and English Studies at Universite de Montreal.