Chloe Turner is a writer and researcher currently completing a PhD with the Centre for Feminist Research. Turner is an Associate Lecturer in both the Design School at LCC, University of the Arts London and the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London where they teach feminist, decolonial, queer/trans theories & design. Turner convenes the popular public course, 'Masters of Sex: Feminisms, Sexuality and the Archive' and is an Editorial Member of the Feminist Review.
Early discussions of Turner’s PhD research on queer/trans futures can be found at The Geographical Journal, Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture, Soapbox: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Metaphor as Metamorphosis Art Journal. In 2023 Turner will contribute articles to the following journal Special Issues: The Sociological Review ‘Live Methods Revisited', Australian Feminist Studies ‘Creating Feminist Futures, Research Methodologies for New Times,’ Media Theory ‘Lauren Berlant and Media Studies’ and will be in conversation with artist & archivist Francis Whorrall-Campbell in MAI Journal: Feminism and Visual Culture ‘Gendered Death.'
Bridging theory and culture, Turner has previously been in conversation with queer and trans artists including writer D Mortimer as part of 'Where Life Begins' (2021) at Neumarkt Theatre, Zurich; photographer Lydia Garnett as the exhibition text for her show ‘Close Shave’ (2022) at Sudbury Studios, London; Dr Althea Greenan curator of the Womens Art Library, London in the ‘Being, Making, Becoming’ (2022) project collaboration between Art360 Foundation, London and Hauzer & Wirth, New York.
Turner's ongoing project Feel Tanks has been supported as part of multiple British Academy / Leverhulme Trust and AHRC funded research projects, the most recent being 'Feeling, Making, Imagining Time: Everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic' (2021-2022) with Professor Rebecca Coleman (University of Bristol) and Dr Dawn Lyons (University of Kent).
Turner is available for writing, seminars, workshops and curatorial projects - drop a mail to: chloeturneruk@gmail.com
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