Homo Humour: Gay Male Artist Moving Image
Fri, 12 May 2023 18:00 - 20:00 BST
Rainbow Room, London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB
Free but ticket required:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homo-humour-gay-male-artist-moving-image-london-met-rainbow-room-tickets-604993099647
Homo Humour explores the history of comedy as a queer identity defence, a means of expression and storytelling and the subversive and surprising ways that humour can be used on screen. Homo Humour responds to the growing interest in LGBTQ+ folk using film and moving image to tell their stories by focusing purely on humour. Whilst the concept of humour helping LGBTQ+ people is an interesting (and vital) world to explore, this event seeks to also engage wider groups of artists, academics and students interested in film and/or the study of humour. We also invite health/inclusion/wellbeing practitioners who are interested in how comedic storytelling may encourage people’s understanding of LGBTQ+ communities.
Curated by Dr Lee Campbell, artist and Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Homo Humour was first presented at Edgezones gallery in Miami in January 2020 and then at Sardinia Pride/Queeresima in June 2020 bringing together emerging and established gay male artists/independent filmmakers from all over the world . The showreel has since been screened at Metal, Southend-on-Sea ,FRISE gallery in Hamburg, Open Eye, Liverpool and Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone. Lee has presented talks about Homo Humour at the conference Queer Pedagogies organised by the Queer-Feminist Interdisciplinary Working Group at The European University Institute in July 2022, Untold Tales, University of Surrey in June 2022 and will present another talk at Contemporary LGBTQ+ Screen Cultures symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University in May 2023.
Please note this event is suitable for 18+
Refreshments will be provided.
More information about Homo Humour:
https://lcampbellprojects.blogspot.com/p/homo-humour.html
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