Summer 2010: Prof. Susan Aberth
I attended the 5th International Symposium on Surrealism held June 18-20 at The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College located in Chichester, West Sussex (England). Titled “Surrealism Laid Bare,” this year’s conference was supported by the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies and the Tate Museum’s project Surrealism and Non-Normative Sexuality. “Querying Surrealism/Queering Surrealism” was the uniting focus of the two-day event, which was held in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Kati Horna. I opened the event with a talk titled “Leonora Carrington’s Bestiality,” held at Pallant House on June 18th. After the conference I spent five days in Paris doing research on the Cuban surrealist painter Agustin Fernandez.
