Jacqueline Rose in discussion with Galit Eilat and Erden Kosova.
As part of bi'bak's series Art in Dark Times. Join us and feel free to ask questions.
One of the main focal points of Jacqueline Rose’s writing has been the historical misogyny and asymmetric social conditions inflicted on women. Her recent book Women in Dark Times takes this focus on the tragic and creative biographies of famous women in history and merges it with a more contemporary framework in which she explores the lives of three women who have been victims of ‘honour killing’ and the works of three contemporary artists who deal with the global condition of women today. Rose will investigate the questions about the extent which our present time differentiates itself from previous historical conditions.
Jacqueline Rose is Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the London Critical Theory Summer School. She is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012), the novel Albertine (2001), Women in Dark Times (2014) and most recently Mothers – An Essay in Love and Cruelty. Her new book, On Violence and On Violence Against Women will be published early next year.
Galit Eilat is an interdependent curator and writer based in Amsterdam. She developed her practice through a variety of platforms and roles as an institute director and editor of books and a magazine. Her current research trajectories are dealing with the Syndrome of the Present and Art under authoritarianism. Eilat is the recipient of Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, Bard College, 2017-18 and she is the director of Meduza Foundation since 2018.
Erden Kosova is an art critic in Berlin and Istanbul. In 2017 he curated the exhibition "Contemporary Syndromes", which was shown in Thessaloniki, Izmir, Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2019, he was a co-organizer of the Young Curators Academy, which took place at the Maxim Gorki Theater as part of the 4th Berlin Herbst Salon. In 2019 he was also involved in the exhibition of the SIS collective "In the blink of an eye" at the nGbK. Kosova is the editor of the Istanbul online magazine red-thread.org.
