Silver Eye

Borrowing its title from a line by gender-bending surrealist artist Claude Cahun, With an Eternal Wing is a six-week collective exploration led by artist lee rae walsh. Participants will be invited to select an art historical guide as a site of research and inspiration while developing new approaches to sharing their own work. Through collaborative study, readings, discussion, and creative prompts, the course explores art historical figures who blur the boundaries between writing, performance, and photography, with a focus on queer narratives and storytelling.

No special skills or training are required. This course is open to anyone interested in challenging dominant art historical narratives and developing experimental research methods. Participants will be supported in deepening their relationships to their own voices, situating lived stories within history, and building an ongoing research-driven creative practice.

Image credit: lee rae walsh, In the studio at Cow House Residency, 2022. Courtesy of the artist

Level/Experience

Individuals who are curious about or embrace alternative forms of pedagogy, who seek to challenge traditional art historical narratives…and who are interested in invention or new forms of making / disseminating work are encouraged to join. No special skills or training are required for this workshop. As a white and queer artist, I prioritize offering accessible resources to queer, trans and artists of color. All angels are welcome in our collective cabinet, all stories and experiences are honored here.

Schedule

Week 1: Wednesday, June 10, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Introductions, discussions around performative lecture strategies and our collective bibliography.
Assigned Prompts for considering our Guides

Week 2: Wednesday, June 17, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Guided Performance + Lecture, Group Discussion based on Prompts
Sign Ups for 1:1 ‘studio visits’

Week 3: Wednesday, June 24, 6.30-8.30pm ET
1:1 meeting sessions +
Readings and prompts for individual / asynchronous study

Week 4: Wednesday, July 1, 6.30-8.30pm ET
1:1 meeting sessions +
Readings and prompts for individual / asynchronous study

Week 5: Wednesday, July 8, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Collective performative lectures / strategies of embodied research by participants

Week 6: Wednesday, July 15, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Collective performative lectures / strategies of embodied research by participants

Register

The six week course registration fee is $300.00.

If you would like to take this workshop and need financial assistance please contact info@silvereye.org. A limited number of bursary seats are available.

Participating Artist

1. lee rae walsh (b. 1990, they/them) is an artist-poet-photographer-teacher-researcher-and-friend. they received their mfa from columbia college chicago in 2016 and have facilitated independent spaces for study, experimental performances, small-scale publishing and collaboration for over ten years. they have most recently been published in worms magazine (issue 7: artists that write and writers that art), the minutes of the hildegard von bingen society for gardening, vol.2, and sissy anarchy. they currently run sunday school, a platform that celebrates anti-institutional forms of pedagogy, calling on a cabinet of queer angels as guides.