Che Gossett Guest Lecture

The UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts ranks among the world’s leading art schools. Founded on the principle that the production, critical analysis and history of art are inter-related activities, we offer undergraduate and graduate programs in both art practice and art history. Our students have the opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers in the sciences, engineering, literature, music, philosophy, ethnic studies and all the vast initiatives and resources of the greater university.

UC San Diego Visual Arts

"Catastrophe and Care: Black Queer/Trans Art in the Afterlife of Slavery"

Structural and Materials Engineering Building

In this talk, scholar Che Gossett focuses on Kiyan Williams’s performance and sculpture especially: Unearthing (2016), Trash and Treasure (2014) Meditations on the Making of America (2019), Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House (2024). In Williams’s work, anti-black and racial capitalist World is negated and abolished — in its ruination new critical forms crystallize and figurations of the flesh emerge, reverberating and interinanimating each other.Che Gossett is a Black nonbinary femme writer and critical theorist specializing in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought, and Black studies. Gossett’s writing appears in publications including the edited collections Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2015), Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017), and Trans Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). Che is co-editing, with Tavia Nyong’o, a forthcoming special issue of Social Text journal on Sylvia Wynter, culture, and technics. They are the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Writers Grant, and are currently associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.<a href="https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20250218_chegossett.html" title="https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20250218_chegossett.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20250218_chegossett.html</a> <h3>SME 149, <a href="https://map.concept3d.com/?id=1005#!m/246311?share" title="https://map.concept3d.com/?id=1005#!m/246311?share" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Structural &amp; Materials Engineering</a>, UC San Diego</h3>

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