In this talk, Professor Halberstam will revisit the sculptural cuts made by Gordon Matta-Clark into abandoned buildings in the 1970’s and use them to rethink contemporary discourses surrounding trans bodies and politics.

Author of Female Masculinity and The Queer Art of Failure, Jack Halberstam is one of our most prominent queer and trans scholars. Places Journal awarded Professor Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. He is currently working on his project The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy sponsored by the Guggenheim Foundation.