HOW TO BUILD A RUIN: HAZEL MEYER AND CAIT MCKINNEY
Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 7-8 PM
A performance lecture on Zoom, followed by a Q&A
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This performance takes up thinking and feeling about ruins in relation to sexuality. When is a ruin ruined and for whom? How can we think about ruins alongside other erotic modalities, like “to be ruined.” To poke at these questions, the performance follows a winding path: from the Spomeniks of the former Yugoslavia, to the moss, rot, and fecundity of Vancouver, a city that is always wet, to speculation about what Minnie Mouse has been doing in Toon Town since Disneyland’s COVID closure. Featuring guest appearances by Meyer’s mother, Cvjetka, and Minnie Mouse.

The 30-minute performance is a work-in-progress, to be followed by a 30-minute workshop and moderated Q&A. The performance will be closed captioned.

“How to Build a Ruin” is a post-script to HOLES AND HOW TO FILL THEM, a year-long arc of programming that explored historical gaps, omissions, and strategies of refusal and withdrawal as modes of feminist praxis.

This event is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.