Jordan Mckenzie presents a live reading examining SPENT, a series of auto-drawings made over a two year period that explored repetition and mark making in relation to onanistic production.
Jordan McKenzie has presented performances, films, drawings and installations both nationally and internationally, including ‘Shame Chorus’, an uplifting project developed with the London Gay Men’s Choir and commissioned by the Freud Museum London. He is Lecturer in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Solitary Pleasures in art and psychoanalysis is a day-long conference to accompany Solitary Pleasures, a group exhibition at the Freud Museum.
The conference, like the exhibition, reveals masturbation as a topic that can transform our understanding of human subjectivity and sexuality. Perhaps the most common form of human eroticism, it is also one of the least theorised. The conference will explore our complex sexual, erotic, and intimate encounters with ourselves and one another by viewing masturbation as an all-inclusive practice – gay, lesbian, heterosexual, bisexual, trans, queer, +, offering possibilities of a shared exchange and an intimate encounter between couples, lovers and strangers in ways that redefine desires and eroticism’s possibilities.
Conference themes:
History – the cultural history of masturbation
Talking – masturbation in clinical practice and literature
Educating – masturbation in sexual health and wellbeing
Making – masturbation in creativity and art practice
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The Construction of Memory 1: Alasdair Hopwood and Fiona Gabbert
Charms and Other Anxious Objects
Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness
Lacan: In Spite of Everything
Freud’s cancer and its influence on his theories
Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing
Mad, Bad and Sad
The Private Life: Why we Remain in the Dark
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The Psychodynamics of Social Networking
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
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Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self
In Treatment: Fact and Fiction
All About Love - what can psychoanalysis tell us?
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