AUTHOR REBECCA BINNS will be in conversation with artist Gee Vaucher in an in-person and online event on Friday 2 December 2002 that’s part of this year’s Punk Scholars Network (PSN) Conference.
Binns recently published Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde, and this is the latest in a series of events to publicise the book.
The PSN conference takes place at Middlesex University, London NW4 on 2 December and 3 December. This year the event takes as its theme ‘Punk and Resilience’.
In addition to the in-person event, the conference will be live-streamed on Zoom – with the Binns and Vaucher session streaming at 2:30pm (UK time) on Friday 2 December.
The session will be recorded and made available to stream online later for those unable to attend the live event.
More information about the conference can be found on the PSN site and Facebook page
Rebecca Binns also discusses her research on the artisty of Gee Vaucher on the latest instalment of the Minor Compositions podcast Firefly Frequencies. E07 – Feminism, Punk and the Avant-Garde with Becky Binns.
For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde. We cover a a range off topics including Gee’s work in relationship with punk and artistic countercultures, as well as the changing historiography of punk and feminism. Does art produced in collective projects or by artists not seeking personal notoriety get lost within the historical narrative? Have the conditions for the production of autonomous art and life vanished, and how we might collectively create them again?
Opening / Outro song: “The Mystic Trumpeter” by EXIT (Recorded at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound, 1972)
Minor Compositions – Firefly Frequencies
The Hippies Now Wear Black 