EL Putnam chairs Karen Barad: Remembering Time/s for the Time Being

In association with IMMA’s 30th Birthday exhibition, The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, IMMA is delighted to invite internationally renowned quantum physicist feminist theorist Karen Barad to offer critical reflection on the troubling times and ecologies of our global present. This keynote talk coincides with the final week to experience Chapter One: Queer Embodiment of The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now 

Author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007), Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the UC Santa Cruz and is celebrated for their theory of Agential Realism. This keynote talk by Barad is a continuum of investigations into the entanglement of matter and meaning, to radically expose the ways in which quantum physics needs to be troubled while simultaneously troubling modernist conceptions of time and being. Barad invites us to observe the mysteries of ‘quantum temporalities’ that in turn present radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly, by ‘undoing the future’.

This talk is followed by a moderated discussion with Dr. EL Putnam, a digital artist, who works as Lecturer in Digital Media, Programme Director, MA in Digital Media, National University Ireland Galway.

Presented in the context of Chapter One: Queer Embodiment and Chapter Two: The Anthropocene of The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now

This keynote talk is an online talk, to attend please register here

Author and theorist Karen Barad.