Photograph of biomaterials created by Arts University Plymouth MA Student Natalia Lombardi

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A performance lecture investigating abjection, ritual, and care through feminist theory and material practices. Explores memory, mourning, and object agency via embodied gestures, speculative assemblage, and the deep imaginal.

Reference
King, S., and Noble J., (2025). Walking between Worlds. Proceeding of Association for Art History Annual Conference. 9 - 11th April 2025. University of York. DOI: 10.66992/ypbOEH
Publish Date
2025

Conference paper examining fragility, material memory and feminist practices of care in contemporary art, tracing a shift from repair towards speculative methodologies of carrying and tending in response to ecological precarity.

Reference
King, S., (2026). Soft Practices: Material Memory, Fragility and Speculative Futures. Proceedings of the 9th Memory, Forgetting and Creating International Interdisciplinary Conference, organised by InMind Support, Poland, 22–23 January 2026 (online conference). DOI: 10.66992/B1Gp9d
Publish Date
2026