Virtual Conversation: Erotics of Flight

We're pleased to share this virtual conversation, convened in concert with the 2 person exhibition erotics of flight curated by Allison Young and featuring artists Ruth Owens and paris cian at the Front Gallery in New Orleans. paris cian is a current Artist-in-Residence at Joan Mitchell Center, and Ruth Owens was an Artist-in-Residence in 2020.

Focusing on coastal and wetland landscapes as sites of fugitivity, Black ancestral memory, and eco-feminist erotics, the discussion brings together Owens and cian in conversation Dr. Sarah Jane Cervenak, author and co-editor of Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study.