Join us for an In Conversation around the exhibition The Temperament Index and the themes it raises with artist Melanie Jackson, Rachel Stenner and Francesco Ventralla, members of University of Sussex’s Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, and Aspex Curator and Programme Manager Ricardo Reveron Blanco.
This event will take place at Aspex Portsmouth on Wednesday 13 March 2024, from 6pm-8pm. This is a hybrid event meaning for those unable to make it in person, you will be able to join online. The meeting link will be sent to you before the event.
Tickets are pay what you can and range from £0-£8. All donations will help us to continue delivering an programme of free and accessible exhibitions, events and activities. You can book your place on Eventbrite by following the link here
About the speakers
Melanie Jackson is a visual artist working with modes of non-fiction storytelling through assemblages of sculpture, writing and moving image. Recent exhibitions include Spekyng Rybawdy, Mattflix, (2020) and Deeper in the Pyramid, Banner Repeater, London, Grand Union, Birmingham, and Primary, Nottingham (2018). Jackson is represented by Matt’s Gallery and is currently a Tutor at the Royal College of Art, London.
Francesco Ventrella is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex, where he is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He has researched the history of art writing, the cultural field of affect, feelings and emotions, and has written on gender, sexuality, resonance and the voice in Art History, Studi Culturali, British Art Studies and European Journal of Women’s Studies. Francesco has edited with Meaghan Clarke a special issue of Visual Resources on Women and the Culture of Connoisseurship (2017), and with Giovanna Zapperi he has published the volume Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (Bloomsbury, 2020).