Slime: That Hinterland Substance, This Material of the Moment

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Kristensen, J C. 2019. 'Slime: That Hinterland Substance, This Material of the Moment'. In: The Urgency of the Arts Lecture Series. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom 30 October 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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As an invited speaker in the Royal College of Art's lecture series The Urgency of the Arts, convened by the School of Art and Humanities, I delivered a performance lecture in which I explored my engagement with and research process through slime and slimey matters, weaving personal narrative and experience with philosophical readings and historical analysis.

In this exploration, I work through a set of ideas about slime being both of and not-of the moment and propose some answers to the question of what the object lesson of slime might be in and to our contemporary age. Through these workings, I position slime's prevalence in contemporary mass-pop culture as an urgent call towards other ways of political being and doing, both individually and collectively.

The attached video is the first fifteen minutes of the talk where I set the stage for my explorations and begin to unpick slime as it appears in my research.

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Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)

Keywords:

Slime, Performance Lecture, Materialisms, Feminist Materialism, Ectoplasm, Toxic Waste, Sartre, Object Oriented Ontology

Related items in GRO:

Kristensen, J C. 2017 - 2020 Slime Diaries. [Project]
Kristensen, J C. 2017. Pockets of Slime: A Critical Essay. Tenderfoot: A Materiality Website/Artwork by Laura White, [Article]
Kristensen, J C. 2017. 'Pockets of Slime'. In: Materiality Session for The Mountain of Art Research (MARs) Centre. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 6 December 2017. [Conference or Workshop Item]
Kristensen, J C and Pope, Emily. 2019. Slime Radio Hour. [Broadcast]
Kristensen, J C. 2019. 'An Oscillating Wave: How to recarve a space for an academic practice through life’s little vagaries'. In: Shit Happens Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference. Chicago, United States. [Conference or Workshop Item]