Thursday, March 5 at 8:30pm

Doors at 8pm

Rethinking Sex

Matmos

 

MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel are better known as Matmos. The duo’s recent album Supreme Balloon (Matador) is another conceptual masterpiece, this time eschewing the bombastic barrage of samples found on previous efforts to focus purely on synthesizers. Synths of all shapes and sizes dominate the latest incarnation of a group whose relentless experimentation is, at once, both playful and cerebral. Their live performances often incorporate guest artists and unusual visuals. With this in mind, a Matmos show is surely a spectacle not to be missed.

This performance is presented in conjunction with Rethinking Sex, a conference on gender and sexuality studies at the University of Pennsylvania from March 4 through March 6. What are the intellectual and political gains of movements for sexual freedom over the past three decades? And where are we now? Nearly twenty-five years ago, Gayle Rubin’s essay Thinking Sex (1984) inaugurated the contemporary field of sexuality studies. This conference brings Rubin and thirty other key figures in gender and sexuality studies to consider the history of the field as well as its current strengths and potential.  

 

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