Colin Buist

Colin Buist

First Name: 
Colin
Last Name: 
Buist
Title: 
PhD Candidate
Biography : 

Honours, Awards & Grants

  • Conference Grant. School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 2023.
  • Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Art History. Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga, 2022.
Education: 
MA, Art History, University of Toronto, 2021
BA, Art History, Theory and Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020

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Research Area:

Areas of Interest: 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Theories of gender and sexuality
  • Porn studies
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Continental philosophy

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Dissertation Title: 
The Dematerialization of AIDS
Dissertation Supervisors: 
John Paul Ricco
Naisargi N. Davé
Dana Seitler
Dissertation Description: 

My dissertation research in-progress looks to new media art that responds to living in the time of HIV/AIDS after the ‘crisis years’ (1981-1996), conceptualizing an ethics of what remains undetectable, incommunicable, and untransmittable concerning the ongoing effects of the virus on gay male sex, sexuality, and aesthetics.

Presentations: 
“Ignorant Love,” Unlovable, The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 31st Annual Conference, Toronto, ON., Canada. 25 March 2023.
“Is the Stomach a Grave?,” Bersani and Art, American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL. 17 March 2023.
“Doing Away and Letting Be” [paper on Leo Bersani and Michael Vahrenwald's photographic series, Universal Default, 2005-06], Exhaust(ion), University of Toronto Graduate English Association, Toronto, ON., Canada. 22 April 2022.
“Touching Queer Faith” [paper on Ross Bleckner's painting, Hands and Faces, 1993, and John Dugdale's cyanotype, Christ our Liberator, 1999], Touch me (not): Making Contact, Berkley/Stanford Symposium, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA. 8 May 2021.
“Toward an Inoperative Method of Queer Theory,” Arts of Inoperativity, American Comparative Literature Association, Montréal, QC., Canada. 9-11 April 2021.

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