For Lacanian psychoanalysis perversion is a structure, it is the way a subject relates to the symbolic Other. Perverse practice is not to be confused with perversion as a subject’s structure. In this workshop we focus on perverse practice that can be manifest in any of the three main subjective structures, i.e. neurosis, perversion, psychosis. The workshop explores perversion as methodology and how perverse practices can lead to alternative sites of creativity and experimentation - problematising the contemporary shift towards radical identitarianisms.

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Marcella Bruno holds a Masters Degree in Gender, Media and Culture and has a particular interest in experimental feminist methodologies. Most recently, she has delivered a session on methodologies to gender studies post-graduate students at Goldsmiths University, as well as co-chaired Goldsmiths’ Gender Studies Post-Graduate Conference 2018. Apart from her academic work, Marcella designs and delivers projects & training sessions in London (UK) where she is based. // Athanasios Anagnostopoulos (1989) aka Rev Thanatos is minister of the Church of Psychoanalysis, performer and video artist, art theorist and independent researcher. His work focuses on such notions as religious faith and secular belief, radical ideology and fanaticism, anxiety and love of the Other. He is the spiritual force behind the psychoanalytic persona Thanatos and has participated and co-curated popular critical projects such as Documena at the 6th Athens Biennial and the cabaret–performance art nights Glam Slam! Athens.