Red May Seattle & MMCP present Users Guide to Claire Fontaine

A conversation with author Anita Chari and Jaleh Mansoor.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND
2:00 PM

A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine

Critical Theorist Anita Chari explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine’s experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory, Chari delineates a series of theoretical techniques and procedures at the core of the artist’s work, among them defunctionalization, Institutional Critique, human strike, tactile mimesis, desubjectivation, détournement, magic materialism, and feminist materialism. Join her in conversation with art critic and historian, Jaleh Mansoor (Marshall Plan Modernism).