Art historian Robert Summers has curated an exhibition for Telic's Distributed gallery entitled "Bodies-Cities".
The video exhibition is (literally) distributed throughout Chung King Road in Los Angeles' China Town. The Exhibition reckons with the interlacing of bodies and cities, and it visually explores how the embodied self, or "body/self", both does and undoes the city -- as well as how the city does and undoes the body.
A catalogue will be made available, in which a discussion of bodies-cites is discussed between the artists, critical theorists, and Robert Summers.
For more information on Telic's Distributed Gallery see http://dg.telic.info/?a=robert_summers
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Robert Summers is working on a manuscript tentatively tilted “Queer Visual Tactics: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics,” which is being supported by the generous grants from the University of California Humanities Research Institute's California Studies Initiative and UCLA's Center for the Study of Women.
Recently he chaired a panel, “Intersectional Queer Visualities,” at annual AAH conference in the UK, and he will be co-chairing a panel on "Queer Relationality" at the annual CAA conference in the US.
Summers has presented papers on live art and queer and feminist visualities. He has presented papers on panels and has chaired panels nationally and internationally.
Summers is a faculty member at Otis College of Art -- where he teaches modern, contemporary, visual culture, performance and body, and video art.
Michael Connor