Talk by Aritha Van Herk
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:00:00 BST
The Yorkshire Network for Canadian Studies, in collaboration with the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Libraries, present this talk by Aritha Van Herk.
Award winning Canadian author and critic Aritha Van Herk presents The Eloquence of Laundry, an entertaining and thought-provoking talk on Tuesday 8 April from 6.00pm to 8.00pm at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
Aritha will show that laundry, the cleaning, drying and pressing of clothing, is a cultural aesthetic, a metaphor for both secrecy and visibility, an act of physical labour, a partner to water and an apparatus of social declension. Laundry is implicitly associated with both filth and the erotic, but for all its inevitable presence, it is magnificently disguised, a literary and filmic metaphor that resonates through time and continues to ghost both literature and life.
All welcome.
For more information contact Catherine Bates: c.bates@hud.ac.uk
