CALL FOR ARTISTS:HOMO HUMOUR: ART, COMEDY, SUBVERSION curated by Lee Campbell
**DEADLINE October 22nd 2019 ***
As a means to express as well as emotionally protect, homosexual men have historically and to this day embraced and used camp, daftness and a range of comedy forms in subversive and often surprising ways. For example, the gay slang language of Polari hovers being blunt and not and allows users ‘to get away with’ being very rude. Historically so, when used in abundance on mainstream radio when the majority heteronormative listener would be oblivious to the innuendo they were listening to / they were laughing at. By combining fine art, performance and comedy aesthetics, HOMO HUMOUR: ART, COMEDY, SUBVERSION explores the application of humour and comedy tactics by contemporary queer male artists and invites visitors to reflect upon how queer male culture has employed artistic embraces of humour and comedy as strategies to challenge, transgress, subvert and rebel. By doing so, they not only counter art history’s rancor towards and is resistant to particular kinds of humour that are only now being embraced by the most recent methodologies, these artists offer compelling ways of using humour as an artistic, disruptive, cathartic and transgressive act that provokes awareness of key critical issues relating to queer male representation historically and today.
Expressions of interest are sought by queer male artists whose work relates to the exhibition topic.
Please email website links to examples of your practice with artist statement and short CV to [log in to unmask] by October 22nd 2019.
About the Curator
Dr Lee Campbell (b.1978) has been curating, performing, and messing about with art and comedy for twenty years. He has a passion for painting, installation, film and mediums whose discourse is of a performative often queer nature to explore how meaning is constructed through politics of space, and how the politics of artist are articulated through visual and verbal languages. Lee's practice explores how life's everyday actions can be significant and their beauty exposed through various artistic methods. Lee confuses this with his own British suburban taste for old sitcoms, dark forms of humour, mobile phones and ventriloquism. Lee Campbell Projects has showcased exciting, dynamic snapshots of some of the most interesting artists working in the UK and internationally including Beagles and Ramsay, Harold Offeh, Doug Fishbone, Juneau Projects and others, with exhibitions and live events combining fine art practices alongside live performances since 2001.
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