Felicity Gee: Myth, Collaboration, and Reinvention
Sunday 8 February 2026
3.00 – 5.30 pm
📍 Torriano Meeting House NW5 2RX
🎟 £8 or according to pocket
Event Description
Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism) will give a short illustrated talk on the collaborative practice of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, focusing on questions of authorship, myth-making, and reinvention.
The talk will be followed by a hands-on collage workshop inviting participants to work with ideas of myth, disguise, doubling, and transformation. Using collage as both a critical and creative tool, the session encourages participants to think through how Surrealist strategies can be reactivated in the present.
No prior experience with collage is required.
About Felicity Gee
Felicity Gee is Associate Professor of modern literatures and Avant-Garde Studies at the University of Exeter and President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism. Her research focuses on Surrealism, collaboration, gender, and myth in modernist art and writing.
Her work pays particular attention to collective practice and to figures whose contributions have been marginalised or obscured within canonical histories of Surrealism.
Recent Publications:
Gee, F. (2021) Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde, (Routledge)
Gee, F. (2025). Ontogenesis as Revolt: René Magritte’s Universe. In: Eddy, C. (Ed) Speculative Affect. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72167-0_9
Gee, F. (2025). Shadow Dance’s ‘extreme eclecticism’: Magic-realist painting in the Carterian tradition. In S. Gamble & A. Watz (Ed.). Angela Carter’s Futures: Representations, Adaptations and Legacies (pp. 85–106). London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350343603.ch-005
Forthcoming:
Gee, F. (Ed.) (2026) Valentine Penrose: Artist, Surrealist, Poet, Voyager (Bloomsbury, Studied in Transnational Surrealism).
Practical Information
- Duration: 2.5 hours
- Format: Short talk followed by practical collage workshop
- Who it’s for: Everyone interested in Surrealism, collaboration, and experimental practice
- Materials: Basic materials provided; participants are welcome to bring their own
- Booking: £8 or according to pocket
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