non syntax - Lecture by Jin Qiuyu, March 24 2026, 2 pm, Lecture Hall 1
Jin Qiuyu earned an M.A. from the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same program. Her research specializes in film history, photography history and audience studies. With a particular interest in experimental film and the formation of audience memory, she co-founded the experimental moving-image platform non-syntax. From 2021 to 2024, she served as an Assistant Professor at Nihon University College of Art. In 2025, she was selected for Forbes Japan’s 30 Under 30.; She will present a screening program, as well as speak about her practice on experimental photography and moving image.
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Lecture by Reba Maybury, March 2 2026, 01:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1
Reba Maybury is an artist, writer, and political dominatrix whose multidisciplinary practice interrogates the intersections of feminism, sexuality, labour, and power. Operating under the alias Mistress Rebecca, Maybury disperses patriarchal structures and capitalist desire, often by subverting conventional domination–submission dynamics. Grounded in radical feminist thought, her work addresses the commodification of female identity and explores how erotic labour can be reframed as a site of political resistance. In occupying the figure of the dominatrix, Maybury frequently requires her submissives to confront their complicity in structural oppression by anonymously producing artworks under her instruction. She exhibits, lectures, and curates internationally.; (image courtesy Reba Maybury)
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