Скачать или смотреть Closing remarks: Interview with Susie Orbach

An interview with Susie Orbach, psychoanalyst and cultural commentator, about her work with the 'Shame Choir'. Conducted by convener Jordan McKenzie on January 8th 2018 shown as closing remarks for the 'Shame on You' symposium, presented by Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme, February 2018.

Special thanks to Catherine Long for filming.

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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. She is the founder of the Women's Therapy Centre of London, a former Guardian columnist and visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the author of a number of books including What Do Women Want, On Eating, Hunger Strike, The Impossibility of Sex, Bodies - which won the Women in Psychology Prize - and the international bestseller Fat is a Feminist Issue, which has sold well over a million copies. The New York Times said, 'She is probably the most famous psychotherapist to have set up couch in Britain since Sigmund Freud'. She lives in London and lectures extensively worldwide.

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Jordan McKenzie is a performance maker/visual artist and academic based in London. Research interests include queerness and identity, presentations of class in contemporary Britain and the intersections of social housing, arts practices and socially situated art. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries, festivals and arts centers including Freud Museum (2015); Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2014); KASA Gallery, Istanbul (2014); Arnolfini Gallery (2011); Courtauld Institute (2011). His curatorial projects include LUPA (Lock Up Performance Art) a performance space run from a disused garage on the council estate where he lives in East London, co-curated with Aaron Williamson and Kate Mahony (2011-13); Look At The (E)state We're In, a major international conference about art and the council estate (2014); Live(E)lseWhere (co-curated with The Drawing Shed 2014). He has received major arts bursaries and awards from Arts Council England, Arts Admin and The Live Art Development Agency and been an artist in residence in numerous countries including I-Park Massachusetts, USA (2012), OVADA Gallery, Oxford (2005) and Sutra Arts, Nepal (2004). He is currently a senior lecturer in Drawing at The University for the Arts, London and an academic support tutor at Wimbledon College of Art, UAL.

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Shame on You was a day-long symposium that drew together performance artists, psychoanalysis academics and novelists to discuss shame, sexuality and identity. Focusing on the experiences of socially marginalised groups, our conversations covered shame/pride movements within LGBTQ communities, the persistent shaming of female bodies and combatting of female sexuality, and the role that class, state and power should play when theoretically mapping the internal dynamics of shame. Convened by Jordan McKenzie & Akosua Bonsu.

9 Feb 2018, Chelsea College of the Arts