Hal Fischer Symposium | Presentation by João Florêncio at Krannert Art Museum

Presentation by João Florêncio, "The Attack of the Clones: Sampling, Seriality, and Queer World-Making"
Introduction by Nic Flores
Presented at Symposium: Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics
Made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art
About the Presenter: João Florêncio
Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter, UK
Florêncio is a cultural theorist of the body working on representations of sex, health, disease and Nature vis-à-vis biopolitics and the political, philosophical, and technoscientific history the dyad immunity/community.
Watch a public symposium on the photography of Hal Fischer, featuring an international panel of scholars responding to the artist about his body of work. This lecture focuses on a presentation by João Florêncio .
About Hal Fischer & Tim Dean
This public symposium was organized by Tim Dean, James M. Benson Professor in English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Dean is the guest curator of Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics at Krannert Art Museum. His research on human sexuality encompasses historical, cultural, philosophical, and psychoanalytic perspectives, with particular interest in what kinds of vocabularies are available, at different historical moments, for talking about sex.
Photographer Hal Fischer will be the respondent for this symposium. Over a career spanning four decades, Fischer has been an artist, art critic, and museum professional. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and is featured in both public and private collections.
About KAM
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) promotes a vibrant exchange of ideas in the visual arts. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, KAM is the second largest general fine arts museum in Illinois. More information can be found at kam.illinois.edu