Performance Lecture: Galina Shevchenko

Embracing the Grotesque: From the Renaissance Grotto to the Metaverse.

A performance lecture in conjunction with the current IMSS exhibition “We Will Survive as Hybrids”

“This project plumbs the depths of the aesthetic and conceptual aspects of the “Grotesque”: a sacred place of intersection between visual culture and the depths of the subconscious.

I am embracing the Grotesque as embodiment of creation and procreation, the Renaissance wonder and vitality along with the Feminist corporeal sensibility. I consistently re-enact the world being born: the moment of birth, of delivery. Emulating the biological: morphology, deformity, through wonders of technology and mediation.Joy of delivery. Empowerment of a Cyborg.”

-Galina Schevchenko

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This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.