Heather Davis: “Human Energy: Oil erotics, violence, and queer desire”
Video (1:33:35): Heather Davis, assistant professor of Culture and Media at the New School in New York, discusses Jessica Segall’s Human Energy (2023), a 4 Channel video and installation: 30 min loops.
About Heather Davis
Heather Davis is the co-editor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies and editor of the award-winning collection Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), re-examines materiality in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is a member of the Synthetic Collective, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, humanities scholars, and artists, who investigate and make visible plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Her work explores the intersection of art, politics, queer perspectives and ecological disaster, with specific reference to plastic and plastiglomerates.
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About Jessica Segall
Jessica Segall is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is often sited in hostile and threatened landscapes. In her creative practice she draws on avant-garde queer cinema, land art and endurance performance, to create a “queer ecology” that is informed by queer theory, ecofeminism, environmental activism, climate change and decolonial environmental justice.