Talk

Andria Nyberg Forshage / Trans Aesthetics: Against Representation

The lecture surveys and presents theoretical, curatorial and artistic investigations into trans and trans fem aesthetics. Conversely, it also explores trans as ways of un/doing theory, curating, and art.
In representation and in death, trans femininities often function as scapegoated and/or fetishised figurations for the transmisogynist imaginaries of racial capitalism, its aesthetic regimes and identificatory schemas. How can trans and trans feminine aesthetics be thought and practiced as means, or modes, of perception and imperceptibility, sublimity and survival, resistance and refusal, worldmaking, and active, affective solidarity?

Andria Nyberg Forshage is a writer, poet, independent researcher and art worker based in Stockholm. They are a contributing editor to Paletten Art Journal and have given lectures at conferences including Unlearning Nihilism at Royal Holloway, The Posthumanities Hub and The Eco- and Bioart Lab Seminar at KTH, and Trans*Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the co-curator, together with Ruby Nilsson, of an upcoming exhibition on trans (fem) aesthetics at Konsthall C in Stockholm.

This lecture is a part of the series Critical Tools in the public program at the Academy of Fine Art, and the talk will be led by professor Lisa Rosendahl. The full program can be found here: https://artacademycalendar.khio.no/