A public lecture will explore feminist views on key topics in art.

Dubbed "Bodies in Flux," the lecture will tackle feminist readings of time, labor, and becoming in artistic practice to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde on Thursday, January 23.

It is free and open to the public.

The talk is part of the public programs on the ongoing exhibition, "maria taniguchi: body of work," the first survey show of the internationally acclaimed visual artist which features her largest canvasses, key videos, objects, and site-specific commissions.

Dr. Rosallia Domingo, the vice chair of the Department of Philosophy at De La Salle University, will spearhead the session.

Her research focuses on feminist philosophy, gender studies, and gender equality, with a special interest in how AI relates to these fields.

She also explores post-structuralism and post-humanism, which challenge traditional views on identity, power, and technology.

In "Bodies of Flux," Domingo will provide another angle to view Taniguchi’s artworks.

She will offer a feminist reading of French thinker Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of becoming and duration, and will expound on how Deleuze’s idea of becoming emphasizes fluid, transformative processes.

During the lecture, Domingo will draw on contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic subjectivity to explore embodied labor in artistic practice. Braidotti’s theory challenges fixed identities, viewing the body as a dynamic site of resistance.

Through the lens of Deleuze and Braidotti, it critiques patriarchal frameworks to render a reimagined understanding of artistic labor as both a site of agency and embodied transformation, where labor and identity are fluid and resistant to mechanization.

The discussion will examine how repetitive, disciplined art-making externalizes gendered labor, and reframes it as an engagement with time and materiality.

Domingo holds an MA in Gender Studies from the Central European University, a private research campus in Vienna, Austria, and a PhD and MA in Philosophy from DLSU.

Her work on AI and gender equality was recently selected for a video presentation at the Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 2024 in Kranj, Slovenia, which was co-organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence.

She is also an active member of the Global Feminist Artificial Intelligence Research Network.