Speaking/Writing

Conferences and Symposia Organized

  • 2021 Artistic Image/Scientific Imagination: Questions of the Political, Co-organized, with Amanda Beech and James Wiltgen of the conference for the Center for Discursive Inquiry, California Institute of the Arts.
  • 2020 Generating Worlds, Traversing Scientific Languages, Co-cordinated with James Wiltgen and Amanda Beech, Center for Discursive Inquiry, California Institute of the Arts, LA.
  • 2019 Co-organizer, with Gabriela Costardi of Diagnosis in the Lacanian Clinic: 2nd Annual Conference of the California Forum of the Lacanian Field, annual conference of California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field).
  • 2018 Language and Its Possible Worlds, Organized and co- hosted, with James Wiltgen, for Center for Discursive Inquiry, California Institute of the Arts, LA.
  • 2010 Writing the Future, the Future of Writing – symposium , co-organized with Matias Viegener
  • Participants – Jodi Dean, John Keene, Mark McGurl, Juliana Spahr, Heriberto Yépez, Matias Viegener, Christine Wertheim, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
  • Citizen Divas – Day-long symposium on Women, Art and Activism – Co-organized with Nancy Buchanan
  • Participants – Claudia Bernardi, Andrea Bowers, Andrea Liss, Lourdes Portillo, Margaret Prescod, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
  • Image and Text (2009) – with Matias Viegener – MOCA, LA.
  • Untitled NY (2009) – Cabinet Space, NY.
  • On Pornography (2008)  – with Matias Viegener + Janet Sarbanes – CalArts.
  • Untitled LA (2008) – with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • Feminaissance (2007) – with Teresa Carmody – REDCAT, LA.
  • Impunities (2006) – with Matias Viegner – REDCAT, LA.
  • Noulipo (2005)– with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • Séance (2004) – with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • “Séance, n/Oulipo, Impunities, Feminaissance, & Untitled”, with Matias Viegener, Jacket

Selected Critical Writings

2026  – “What’s Number got to do with it?: Pythagorus, Gödel, and Lacan’s Formulas of Sexuation,” in   Artistic Image, Scientific Imagination, eds. Amanda Beech and Daniel Sacilotto, Transcript Publishing, forthcoming.

2025  –  “Mary Anna Pomonis: Quiver, “Review, Less Art, online art magazine

  • “Truthfully, A Retrospective of Nancy Buchanan,” Less Art, online art magazine.

2022 

  • “Maintenance Work,” “Matter, Form and Technology,” “Plasticine Middens and the Lithospheric Imaginary” “Blaschka Models,”  Plastic Waste: An Indian Story,” jn Margaret and Christine Wertheim Wert und Wandel der Korallen, Wienand, Germany.

2020

  • e|e screeem, The Naked Mind, Smart Art Press, exhibit. Cat.
  • “On the Relations between Bodies and Deductive Thinking: An Artefactual Perspective,” in Construction Sites for Possible Worlds, eds. Amanda Beech, Robin Mackay and James Wiltgen, Urbanomic, MIT Press.

2019  –“bOd|es with Organs: a vocal play”, in The Body in Language: An Anthology, ed. Edwin Torres, Counterpath, Denver, Co.

2018

  •  “A Science of Exceptions: Michel Serres’s Birth of Physics,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
  •   “we’re decoys, baby: A CUnT-UP in torn parts,” in Xtreme texts, a special edition of Jacket 2  online journal of poetics.
  • “Anomoly,” “Clinamen,” ‘”Pataphysics”, “Zyzyga”,in “Radical Doubt: The Joker System,
  • After Boal,” by Mady Schutzman, Taylor and Francis.
  • “Notes on a Conference,” Correspondence, Journal of l-École freudienne du Québec, (Quebec-based Psychoanalytic School), September Issue.

2017  –“The New Hot in the (old) Cold World,” Cold War Cold World, ed. Robin Mackay, Amanda Beech, James Wiltgen, Urbanonic.

  • – “Johanna Went: Slave to the Grave,” X-tra: Art Quarterly, 19.4, Summer Issue.
  • – Commissioned response to the Los Angeles’s Clinical Training Days of Gifric (Interdisciplinary Freudian Group for Research and Clinical Intervention), Correspondances: the quarterly publication of the Freudian School of Québec.

2016  – “Ode to the Sublime,” Entropy, online literary journal

2009- 2015

 

images-54Fou Litteraire –  “The Great News (The True Creation of Man, The Resurrection of the Dead, All Mysteries Explained): Jean-Pierre Brisset and the Frogmen, Patacritical Interogation Techniques Anthology, Vol 3., ed. Doug Harvey, AC Institute, NY, 2012, + “The Darkening Ecliptic: The Fall and Rise of Ernest Lalor Malley” in Cabinet Issue 33, Deception, Spring 2009.

 

images-10Litteral Poetics – see The Infestation of Bodies by Tongues: Notes on Litteral Poetics (Part One) – Poems and Poetics, 2010-03-13, + “Litteral Poetics,” in The /n/oulipian Analects, –  co-edited with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2007.

 

images-8Logic – see “Shea Zellweger & the Idea of an Outsider Logic”– Poems and Poetics, 2009-09-17, + the Litteral Poetics and Logic page on this site.

 

 

10-EucTiling3Spatial Structures – see “To Be or Knot to Be” in Cabinet Issue 22, Insecurity, Summer 2006 +  “Hyperbolically Speaking: Femininity and the Space of Modern Art,” in Issues in Contemporary Art, 2008,

 

images-30Theories of  Visual Art – see “Tricky Tactics: Notes Towards an Understanding of Contemporary Asthetics,”  X-Tta: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring, Los Angeles, pp. 5-15, 2003, + “Duck-Formal-Rabbit-Allegory,” Xtra: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter, Los Angeles, pp. 64-66, 2005.

 

images-55Feminisns – see  mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath Press: Denver, Colorado. 2013), +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2007),  +  “Showing Our Roots: Has Feminism become Just Another ‘Ism’?” in Calarts: Magazine of the California Institute of the Arts, Summer/Fall, 2007.

 

 

images-13Feminine Labor and Craftwork – see  “After the Revolution, Who’s Going to Pick up the Garbage?” X-TRA, vol. 12, no. 2, Winter, 2009, + “Craft-Work: A Sampler of Musings on Art and Labor in the Information Age or How to Make Alterations in Global Financial Fabrics,”  n.paradoxa, ed. Katy Deepwell, Jan 2011.

 

Selected Talks, Conferences and Panels

2023

  • “What’s Number got to do with it?: Pythagorus, Gödel, and Lacan’s Formulas of Sexuation,” Center For Discursive Research, LA
  • – Watt Is the Question?, Forum of Rio de Plata, Buenos Aires
  • – On Masculinity, Forum of Colorado, Boulder Colorado.

2022

  • “Women, Work and Value,” Kine Kino Lecture series,  Zurich University of the Arts
  • “The Worth and Wonder of Corals,” televised intereview with Margaret Wertheim, Germany.

2020

  • “Women and Work: Rethinking Labor and Craft,” Master Artistic Research program, University of the Arts The Hague.
  • – “On the Relations between Bodies and Deductive Thinking: An Artefactual Perspective,” Center for Discursive Inquiry, California Institute of the Arts.
  • – “Watt is the Question?,” Anglophone zone of the IF-EPFCL, (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field).
  • – “On Affects in Lacan, by Soler,” California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field).

2019 

  • – Moderator of discussion with keynote speaker Christian Lenz Dunker, “The Global Rise of Right-Wing Populism via Jacques Lacan’s Hypothesis of the Periodic Degradation of Democracy,” at annual conference of California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, LA.
  • – Moderator of panel “The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic: A History of its Structure and Power,”with keynote speaker Christian Lenz Dunker, Dr. Albert Morell, and Seth Alt, at annual conference of California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, LA.
  • – Panel discussion with Tomás Saraceno, Margaret Wertheim and Ralph Rugoff, as part of La Biennale di Venezia:  May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice.

2018   

“Watt: A Case Study,” presentation to the LA Circle of GIFRIC, Quebec-based psychoanalytic school, LA

2017 

  • “(In)-Formal Play and Material Construction,” Phd theory seminar at the Royal College, London.
  • – Presenter and Moderator of Looking at Performance: Guts, Lust and Kinks, the X-TRA Summer Event – screening and discussion of Johanna Went ‘s work, with Johanna Went and Mark Wheaton.
  • “Crocheting the Chthulucene” – in conversation with Donna Haraway and Margaret Wertheim, UCSC.
  • “Women’s Labor, Women’s Time,” public lecture, UCSC
  • “The Problem with Plastics,” UCSC Art and Activism lecture series.

2016

  • “Watt |s a Word: the Delire of Frog’s-peak,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Harvard University, Boston.
  • “Embodied Logic,” A  Body of Knowledge: Embodied Cognition and the Arts, conference at Claire Trevor School of the Arts University of California, Irvine.

2015

  • “Is Pataphysics a Science?” – keynote lecture at Unruly, Science and art conference at Deakin University, Melbourne, 2015
  • &Now: Blast Radius, CalArts, 2015

2014

  • External Examiner for the MFA Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • “Poetry as Tongue,” Los Angeles Poets Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Radical Crochet, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
  • “S(w)Ounds, HO(w)les + Other Infantile nOises,” Department for Theory and History of Literature, Sofia University, Sophia, Bulgaria.
  • “Sound, Image, Body and Space,” Centre for Fine Art Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.
  • “Language, Writing, Speech,” Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research          London, UK.
  • “mUtter–bAbel: A Poetic Investigation of the mOther’s tOnge and Other Complex vOcal Organs” Annual Conference of the Kristeva Circle, Vanderbilt University,  Nashville, TN
  • “ The $ubject, Capital and Conceptual Poetics,” atOn Capital: American Comparative Literature Association, Annual Conference, NYU, NY.
  • “The Performing Tongue,” Annual Conference of the Modern Languages Association, Chicago.

2013                  

  • “verbi-voco-visual experiments,” &Now Literary Festival, Boulder Colorado.
  • “Mother tongues and Daughter Noises,” &Now Literary Festival, Boulder Colorado.
  • SurfaceTensions – Symposium at the University of Western Sydney – roundtable participant – Sydney, Australia.
  • “Reefing,” Denver Art Museum, Denver

2012     

  • Field Tour – In Fall 2012, Christine toured with the Danish writer Martin Glaz Serup, visiting numerous cities in the Mid-West, including, Chicago, Detroit, Lake Forest, South Bend – visiting colleges, MFA Writing Programs, Art Galleries, Cultural Centers and Reading Series.
  • “Unresolved Infantile Affects in Writing and Geo-politics,” &Now Literary Festival, The Sorbonne, Paris.
  • “SwOunds and hOwles,” Department of Literature Reading Series, Birkbeck College, UK.
  • “Language and the Mother’s Tongue,” Program in Writing and Society, University of Western Sydney
  • ”How I came to Write Some of My Work,” Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
  • “auto-bio-graphics: conceiving of bodies through image-ing tongues,” English Program, Research Seminar, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • “Community Arts in the 21st Century,” Center for Creative Arts, La Trobe University
  • “Reefs Rubbish and Reason,” City University of NewYork, Fredonia , NY

 2011

  • The Story of the e|e,” Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Seattle
  • Language as Tongue,” &Now Literary Festival, University of California San Diego.

2010                 

  • “Rubbish, Plastic and Crochet,” Dublin Science Museum, Trinity College, Dublin
  • “Writing as Practice,” Art Schools Caucus, Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference, Denver.

2009               

  • “Conceptual Writing,” Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY.
  • “Writing in Art Schools,” “Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict, 23rd Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York.
  • “Visions of the Unknown,” with Margaret Wertheim, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • “Crochet is Rubbish,” with Margaret Wertheim, Outpost Gallery, Los Angeles
  • “ Rubbish and Crochet,” with Margaret Wertheim, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” Powerhouse Museum Sydney
  • “Women, Craft and Melodrama,” California College of the Arts, Design and Craft Lecture Series, CCA, San Francisco
  • “Crocheted Reefs,” Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
  • “Me, me, me + I: Why ‘the subject’ is not dead,” & Now Literary Festival, Chapman College Los Angeles
  • “On Letters,” Writing Program, California College of the Arts San Francisco
  • “Do It Again,” MFA Art Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

2008

  •  “On Difference,” Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles.
  • “The Plastic Exploding Inevitable: Science, Rubbish and Art, “ The Right Window Gallery, San Francisco
  • Studio visits with MFA Art students, California College of the Arts San Francisco

 

Professional Affiliations

2017-2023 – Member – California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field).

2020-2022 – Delegate for the California Forum of the IF-EPFCL, (The School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field).

  • Member – GIFRIC- (Quebec-based psychoanalytic school).

2005- 2015 – Associated Writing Program

  • Modern Languages Association