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Rafael Pérez Evans | Dumping to Release: Material Dissent
Rafael Pérez Evans is a Spanish-Welsh artist and educator who will introduce his site-specific installation and sculptural practice. His research examines devaluation as both a condition and a site of possibility within systems of care rooted in queer, rural and disabled communities. Working with tired materials drawn from agricultural protests and industrial contexts, alongside foodstuffs and plants, he treats dumping, spilling and mishandling as core sculptural methods that can reanimate and liberate matter tied to labour, protest and survival.
In the second half of the talk, Pérez Evans will introduce ideas from Crip and Mad studies that guide his move away from detached, colder and standardised modes of academic thinking and writing. He will offer a series of diaristic dumps, thinking through dump as text. Here, dumping shifts from material action to a heated, rant-based voice and writing practice, marking a temperature shift that centres autotheory, instability, and emotional excess as ways of pouring out and airing knowledge and critique, rather than states to be concealed or corrected.
Date:
2 December 2025, 17:00
Venue:
128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details:
Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Speaker:
Rafael Pérez Evans (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Ruskin School of Art
Organiser contact email address:
info@rsa.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Contemporary Art Lectures
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://bit.ly/Ruskin_ContArtTalks
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Johanna Gullberg
