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The Ian White Lecture: ‘where our subject slips away’ by Elisabeth Lebovici

14 February, 2019

– 14 February, 2019

6.30pm

ICA

The Mall, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AH

Ian White’s The Neon Gainsborough (2002–3/2018), Camden Arts Centre 2018, photographed by Elisabeth Lebovici

In collaboration with LUX and the Ian White Estate, the ICA is pleased to present the second Ian White Lecture, given by art historian and critic Elisabeth Lebovici.

This annual series celebrates the provocative and enquiring spirit of artist, performer, curator, educator and writer Ian White (1971–2013). The invitation to write and present a new lecture is extended to an individual whose work shares and carries forward this spirit.

Lebovici’s lecture explores new lines of thought while also drawing on the breadth of her work as a writer and educator since the 1990s. Lebovici’s writing is primarily focused on the relationships between feminism, activism, queer politics and contemporary art. Her recent work has included collaborative research into Francophone lesbian culture, as well as writing focused on gender and reproduction in relation to the art of Philippe Thomas, and AIDS activism in France during the ‘80s and ‘90s. Across these areas of inquiry lies an engagement with the networks formed in the absence of – and in antagonism towards – the nuclear family, as both a reproductive system and a heteronormative form. Lebovici’s lecture addresses the modes of implication and pleasure that occur within these networks, while also recognising their precarious vulnerabilities.