Goldsmiths, University of London

Faculty Member, Visual Cultures

Lecturer in Visual Cultures

About

I am currently completing my book _Machine-Events: autobiographies of the performative_ in which I argue that performativity not only crosses organic and synthetic but troubles the discourse of species. The book makes major interventions into relations between feminism, deconstruction, animal studies and visual culture through closely and poetically read cinematic case studies. The latter range from the digital films and installations by Richard Linklater, Lynn Hershmann and Hussein Chalayan to the dance shorts of Clara van Gool and David Hinton.

My long-standing interest in feminist investigations into gender, sexuality and sexual difference together with their material exploration in visual culture - and aural culture, has been enriched over the last few years through connecting with the 'animal question'.  Who we are, and who we are following (in Derrida's locution), have become yet more sharply focused questions when taken together with who we call kin and whom we (may) eat. 

Having survived - and practiced - the harsh tones of 1980's/1990's critical art practices and art schools (though perhaps always with an eye for, say, lighting lending a supplement of seduction that ideological critique otherwise aimed to smash), I find myself more interested in art now than for years. This is impacting on my 3rd year elective 'sexual poetics' and its emergent M-level version 'sex, gender, species' with some pleasure and conviviality. It's also germinating new essays on work by artists such as Julia Reodica and Dorothy Cross.

A former Commisionning Editor of the Routledge journal, parallax, I am now the Arts Editor. With Lindsay Kelley, I will be guest-editing a future issue under the working title of 'bon appetit'. Call for papers forthcoming later this year.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/13534645.html

Contact Information

Homepage: http://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/l-turner/

Telephone: +44 20 7717 2207 [office]