Thinking the Future for Radical Social Change: Dialogues on Theory and Practice

Household was part of Thinking the Future for Radical Social Change: Dialogues on Theory and Practice, a symposium organised by the interdisciplinary ‘Time/Temporality/Futurity’ Reading Group at Queen’s University Belfast, in partnership with The MAC as part of the exhibition On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art in The MAC, Belfast, curated by Clare Gormley.

Thinking the Future for Radical Social Change: Dialogues on Theory and Practice brought together politicians, grassroots political activists, artists, and academics to explore the possibility of radical social change. It will featured two distinguished scholars in performance studies and political theory, Professors Peggy Phelan (Performance Studies, Stanford University) and Isabell Lorey (Queer Studies, KHM/EIPCP), who engaged in dialogue with panel representatives interested in radical social change, the present, and future in Northern Ireland (Clare Bailey, Green Party NI; Emma Campbell, Alliance for Choice; Alissa Kleist, Household; Clare Gormley, The MAC).

Image: ‘The Classroom’ by artist Arcmanoro Niles, which was part of the exhibition On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art.