What does CONSENT look like today?
The past decade has seen a seismic shift in society’s understandings of CONSENT across interpersonal, institutional, colonial and environmental contexts. The conversation around consent has been urgent, swirling and contested. At its heart are questions of agency, respect, recognition, sovereignty, visibility and empathy. It is the site where systemic change is enacted, and where we negotiate power on an individual level.
Against this backdrop we ask, have learnings from #MeToo, decolonisation, queer and body politics and even the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the ways we act, engage and communicate with one another?
Across three afternoons, our online forum sessions explored consent through five key areas: COVID-19, decolonisation, data and the consumer, human and non-human relations, and bodily autonomy. Some of the country’s leading voices in criminology, creative writing, marketing, law, digital ethics and computing, science and technology, health and design presented, alongside creative commissions from Luke George and Debris Facility Pty Ltd.
The Potter’s annual interdisciplinary forum program series was co-presented with the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) at the University of Melbourne.
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