Book chapters:
| 2025 |
“Queer Inversions: When Orientation and Desire Remains Undecidable in Leyla Yilmaz’s Not Knowing [forthcoming] |
| 2025 |
“Unbridled: Dragging Nudity in Ann Oren’s Piaffe” [forthcoming] |
| 2025 |
“The Gift in Lube: Derrida, Lubrication and Fisting” [forthcoming] |
Articles:
| 2023 | “(Non)Life on the Line: Crisis Calls with Animals”, Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture, 10(1): 1-17. ISSN 2416-111X |
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2023 |
“Plastic Bits: Genitals and Sexual Plasticity”, tba: Journal of Art, Media and Visual Culture, 5(1): 68-79. ISSN: 2563-6243. |
2025 | “Tongue-Ties: Auto-Affection in the Mouths of Hegel and Derrida.” Feeling Cultures/Culturing Feelings: Emotions and Affects in Cultural Practice. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. 9-11 April. [forthcoming] |
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2024 | ‘Under the Skin: The Interval Between Sex and Meaning.’ Film-Philosophy 2024 Conference. Keynote speakers: Catherine Constable, João Mário Grilo and Homay King. Portugal. 1-3 July 2024. |
2024 |
‘Creature Cameos: Filming Who or What.’ Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World. University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Keynote speaker: Janet Carsten. |
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2024 |
‘Against the Flow: When the Gift and Sexual Biopolitics Bleed Together.’ Leakage Inaugural Conference of STSinG. TU Dresden, Germany. Keynote speakers: Nerea Calvillo, Amade M’charek and Thao Phan. 19-22 March 2024. |
2023 |
‘Secret(e) Sex: Secretions that Supplant Shame.’ 5th Memory Guilt and Shame International Conference (online). Committee Speakers: Wojciech Owczarski and Ricardo Rato Rodrigues. 26-27 October 2023. |
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2023 |
‘The Gift in Lube: Erotics of Facilitation.’ Sense and Sexuality: Erotic Discourses in/of History Conference. University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Keynote speaker: Clarissa Smith and Jana Funke. 22-23 September 2023. |
2023 |
‘Keeping (Revolutionary) Time: Conducting Political Counterpoints in Todd Field’s Tár.’ Film-Philosophy 2023 Conference. Keynote speakers: Vivian Sobchack, Akira Mizuta Lippit and Richard Rushton. Chapman University, United States. 13-15 June 2023. |
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2023 |
‘A Revolutionary Metronome: Time and Sexual Politics’ Time and Its Influences, EGO Spring Conference. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States. 14-16 April 2023. |
Art Publications:
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2024 |
“Sexes that Secrete”, Counterfield 2 (1), pp. 64-68. |
2020 |
“Sticks, Stones & Supplanted Groans: The Offshoots of Sexual Difference in Ari Astar’s Midsommar”, Counterfield 1(1), pp. 42-45. |
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2019 |
“Black Circle/Transparent Bodies”, co-written with Katya Krylova, The Ocean As Archive, 1(1), pp. 6-9. |
Killian O’ Dwyer is a graduate tutor and PhD researcher in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Killian’s research examines how and why sex comes to matter in art, literature and political arenas.
Research interests
Areas of interests include lubrication, sexual poetics, deconstruction, animalities, film studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory and trans-feminist philosophies. Drawing extensively on the work of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray, Killian’s doctoral work calls for a ‘lubricants of difference’ that welcomes the undecidability and variability of sexes across biological and cultural contexts.
Teaching and university engagement
Killian teaches a module on questions of space and time in visual culture for the BA in History of Art at Goldsmiths. He also works in the Graduate School of Arts and Science for New York University, where he coordinates the MA programme in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. He is also a member of Counterfield, a PhD research collective associated with Goldsmith’s Visual Cultures.
At present, Killian is working on a new project Moved By Images, a podcast where philosophy meets film. He is also currently contributing chapters on notions of nudity, orientation and lubricity for several edited collections.
Academic qualifications
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Honours, Awards and Research Grants:
Research interests
Areas of interests include lubrication, sexual poetics, deconstruction, animalities, film studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory and trans-feminist philosophies. Drawing extensively on the work of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray, Killian’s doctoral work calls for a ‘lubricants of difference’ that welcomes the undecidability and variability of sexes across biological and cultural contexts.
Teaching and university engagement
Killian teaches a module on questions of space and time in visual culture for the BA in History of Art at Goldsmiths. He also works in the Graduate School of Arts and Science for New York University, where he coordinates the MA programme in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. He is also a member of Counterfield, a PhD research collective associated with Goldsmith’s Visual Cultures.
At present, Killian is working on a new project Moved By Images, a podcast where philosophy meets film. He is also currently contributing chapters on notions of nudity, orientation and lubricity for several edited collections.
Academic qualifications
| 2019 / 2025 |
PhD,
Visual Cultures, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University,
London. |
| 2017 / 2019 | MA,
Contemporary Art Theory, Department of Visual Culture, Goldsmiths University,
London. |
| 2011 / 2015 | BA, Fine Art (Honors), Crawford College of Art & Design, Ireland. |
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2025 |
“Siôn Parkinson, Stinkhorn: How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen (London: Sternberg Press, 2024)” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies [forthcoming]. |
Audio:
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2024 |
“Tár and Revolutionary Time.” Moved By Images podcast [forthcoming]. |
| 2021 |
“Soundbites Vol I: Airways, Breathing, Circulation.” In series four: playful disruptions: loopholes, networks, care, Goldsmiths University London. |
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2024 |
Speaker, ‘What is Research Now?’ ReSkIN, The Courtauld, London United Kingdom, 23 March 2024. |
2023 |
Facilitator, MA in Contemporary Art Theory reading group, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, 5 October 2023. |
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2019 |
Speaker, ‘Roaming.’ The Ocean As Archive: Performance Night and Zine Launch. Tamesis Dock, London, United Kingdom. 2 May 2019. |
Honours, Awards and Research Grants:
2023 |
Visual Cultures PhD Student Grant, Goldsmiths University, United Kingdom. |
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2019 |
Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Student Fund, Goldsmiths University, United Kingdom. |
2015 |
CIT Venice Biennale President Award, graduate travel bursary to Venice, Italy. |
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2015 |
Graduate Residency Award with Backwater Artists Group, year-long studio residency, Ireland. |
| 2015 |
Crawford College Academic Thesis Award, Cork, Ireland. |