Crazy Quilt: Feminist Killjoys and the Queer Art of Failure (The Secret Ingredient – 19/11/14)

The Secret Ingredient

This show combines threads of different spools to affect a powerful audio wake-up call. Chock-full of rad new music that will shake out the cob webs out of the attic, in this episode we talk about failing as a style and way of life, as the orbital path of creativity itself. We talk about power imbalances as a human sickness, feminist killjoys, the burden of proof on marginalized voices, the loss of memory as a power outage. We spin a few hat tricks of transcendent tracks (and did you know that the expression “hat trick” originates with Guelph’s former junior hockey team, the Biltmore Mad Hatters?). Davis, Lydia. Almost No Memory. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 1997. (Nov. 19, 2014) Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1995. (Dec 3, 2015) Doyle, Jennifer. Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Duke University Press, 2013. (January 14, 2015) Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. (November 19, 2014) Queyras, Sina. M x T. Toronto: Coach House Printing, 2014. (January 14, 2015)