HOMO HUMOUR: COMEDY AND SUBVERSION IN QUEER MALE ARTIST FILM curated by Lee Campbell Projects
Short films (max. running time 20 mins) to be included as part of a showreel to tour internationally later this year with artist filmmakers including DGA award winner Joao Dall'Stella.
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, Through a presentation showreel of short films, HOMO HUMOUR 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.
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About the Curator
https://filmfreeway.com/LeeCampbell
Dr Lee Campbell (b.1978) is based in London, UK. He is an artist filmmaker who makes films inspired by his own queer male identity. One of his most recent films Let Rip: A Personal History of Seeing and Not Seeing (2019) has been shortlisted for the Queerbee LGBT Film Festival 2020. He is also an artist film curator. An example of one of his previous curatorial projects is All for Show, (2005-2007), an internationally touring exhibition of short films made by British artists that tested the acceptable limits of humour in the white cube art gallery using referring to Jessica Lack’s review in ID magazine ‘slapstick theatrics’ (Lack, 2005:55) and ‘an awkward and macabre sense of humour […] cringingly funny. These idiosyncratic films succeed in finding surreal quirks in the banalities of everyday life’ (ibid.). He received his MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2007 and earned his PhD from Loughborough University in 2016
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