Juliette Desorgues
Juliette Desorgues is a curator and writer based in Llandudno, Wales and London. She is currently Curator of Visual Arts at MOSTYN, Wales, UK.
1. Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (London: Verso Books, May 2019)
The first book by feminist theorist Sophie Lewis, published by Verso Books. Here, Lewis calls for gestational justice and the dissolution of heteronormative nuclear family structures, as a means towards new forms of collective kinship
2. David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film 1978–1992 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and I Wake up every morning in this killing machine called America: David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama at New Galerie, Paris
Two seminal exhibitions this year on the work of artist, writer and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz – the first at KW Institute of Contemporary Art which solely focused on his photographic and filmic work and the second at New Galerie, Paris presenting later works made in collaboration with Marion Scemama towards the end of his life.
3. Life Forms, Apr 25 - Apr 27 2019, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and John Tresch
Three-day series of talks, lectures and performances that examined the possibilities of life on earth today within the context of the current tumultuous climatic, political and economic shifts. This event is part of a wider research project titled Technosphere, which has been dealing with the dilemma of global technology and its identity since 2015. Contributors included amongst others Lisa Baraitser, Luis Campos, Maria Chehonadskih, Louis ChudeSokei, continent., Hu Fang, Maya Indira Ganesh, Wesley Goatley, Melody Jue, Noël Yeh Martin, Luciana Parisi, Sascha Pohflepp, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Marina Rosenfeld, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Jenna Sutela, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Gary Tomlinson, John Tresch.