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- Learn about the role of the hybrid in history and how it has shaped ideas related to the monster, the divine, and the unknown
- Connect current ideas of non-anthropocentrism with historical precedents found in feminist hybridity
- Gain the opportunity to experiment with various research, writing, and drawing techniques in relation course subject matter
- Read and discuss prominent feminist/cultural theories and excerpts from selected fiction
- Integrate existing interests, ideas and techniques into coursework via journaling, writing and drawing exercises
- Work independently while gaining insight into fellow classmates’ ideas and creative approaches
- Create new visual artworks and written work
Online Course BECOMING WEIRD, BECOMING WILD: From Feminist Hybridity to Divine Monster by Jasmine Reimer
“Through four weekly sessions, Reimer will trace the origins of feminist hybrid symbols from Neolithic goddess mythology to 19th century grotesque murals, to contemporary theories of The Weird and the monster.
As concepts, the hybrid and the monster are symbols of resistance – in contrast to our ideas of perfection, they exist in a state of constant becoming, never finite or complete. As symbols of transformation and change, the hybrid-monster body exhibits relational, material, and spiritual unbounded-ness. Situated outside of normative language, within an incoherent embodied experience, they confront us with what we believe is impossible, challenging restrictive and damaging ideas imposed upon us by capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. Contemplating the hybrid-monster as a model for change, we will think beyond and through anthropocentric systems and ideologies toward a new and weird divine – towards what Reimer calls “re-monstering”.
Participants will have the opportunity to work with experimental drawing methods, writing prompts, individual journaling exercises, readings and discussions. Bridging research and artistic practice, critical discussion, feminist and art history, each session will build upon the former with the goal of dismantling preconceived ideas about socio-political classifications, binaries, and systems. The aim of the course is to restructure ideas related to bodies and identities as they exist within current cultural-political myths and visual representation. These observations can be applied to writing, visual art, curatorial, research and/or other creative projects.” (Text & image by courtesy of Jasmine Reimer)
Your BAI Online Course Instructor
Jasmine Reimer is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher and art educator based in Berlin. Working in sculpture, drawing, non-fiction and poetry, her work uses symbolism, myth and abstraction to investigate physical and non-physical states of transformation. Specifically, Reimer explores the ever-changing hybrid-monster body and its role in maintaining the complexity of our identities.
Reimer exhibits internationally with her most recent exhibition at the plumb in Toronto and Khota Kunsthalle in Helsinki. In addition, Reimer writes art criticism, which can be found in ArtReview, Border Crossings, Peripheral Review and Mousse. In 2024 she was invited to a reading residency at Kunstal Gent where she hosted two reading sessions on the topic of Silvia Federici, and witch and monster aesthetics. Currently, Reimer teaches at Berlin Art Institute, with past classes held at The University of Guelph, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Sheridan College and The University of Toronto. She is currently working on a series of Leporello books and preparing for a collective research residency on posthumanism hosted by The Betty Goodman Foundation in Italy.
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The live sessions for this course will be given on Tuesday March 31, April 7, 14 and 21, 2026. You will also receive an email reminder for each video conference before it takes place.
Recording of Live Sessions
We record the live sessions so that they remain available for a logged in course participant until one week after the last session. Please check before booking a course the technical requirements as listed below.
