Rudy Gerson is an artist and educator working across mediums of print, still and moving image, and performance. In this artist talk, Rudy will share his practice, which explores how the force of erotics is expressed in memory culture, social life, and historical inquiry. Recent film and video works will be screened and text works will be read. The talk will engage questions of sacredness and profanity and touch on queer poetics and the aesthetics of desire under conditions of opacity and loss.