Event | Un/savory Sub/stances: a colloquium on the erotics of bodily waste
Event | Un/savory Sub/stances: a colloquium on the erotics of bodily waste
Date: 23 May 2025
Time: 13:00-17:00
Location: University of Amsterdam, REC A (Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 1018 WV Amsterdam) – REC A 2.11 (13.00 – 15.00 ) & REC A 2.09 (15.00 – 17:00)
Contact & registration: d.semerene@uva.nl
Registration deadline (for credits): 20 May 2025
Credits: 1 ECTS
Writer Ludmila Oulitskaïa says that a forbidden book is granted suplementary reason to be read, taboo being a sort of quality label of an artifact. Could the same be said about substances that come out of the body? Not just the usual suspects, such as semen, but ones that a society agrees to deem repulsive: urine, blood, vomit, snot, excrement. The Un/savory Sub/stances colloquium proposes to look at the erotic potential of such bodily waste through the work of PhD and rMA students, as well as ecodeviant artist Arthur Guilleminot’s piss soap project.
Speakers
Nor Akelei
Xinyi Li
André Soliva
Maz Jardon
Samuel Ludmila Feline Constantin
Arthur Guilleminot
Program
Nor Akelei, “Allow me to chew on some words even as their taste may turn us sick”
Xinyi Li, “A Touch(ing) of Traumatophilic Revisitation: Psychoanalyzing A Self”
André Soliva, “Looking into the Eyes of God while Showered in Manure”
Maz Jardon, “Blood, Cum, and White Makeup: An Autotheory on Opacity and Erotic Desire”
Samuel Ludmilla Feline Constantin, “three plastic tubes (1997-2010)”
Arthur Guilleminot, Piss Soap project
The colloquium is open to the public. Only rMA students who’d like to receive a 1 EC need to register. These students must prepare readings in advance. Contact Diego Semerene to register before May 20: d.semerene@uva.nl
Credit details
Readings for the 1 EC:
Dollimore, Jonathan. “Sexual Disgust.” Oxford Literary Review 20, no. 1/2 (1998): 47–77.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44031044
Dalla Torre, Elena. “Transessualità Italian-Style or Mario Mieli’s Practice of Love.” TSQ : Transgender Studies Quarterly 4, no. 3–4 (2017): 556–76. doi:10.1215/23289252-4189965.
https://lib.uva.nl/permalink/31UKB_UAM1_INST/1hfh82p/cdi_webofscience_primary_000419164000013
Flor, Rolf, Manya Steinkoler, and Patricia Gherovici. “The Case Of The Baby Diaper Man 1.” In Lacan On Madness, 1st ed., 19–32. Routledge, 2015