Queer Conversations

co-organised by @tillyscant & @tweetsbyandrewc🦄 Queer Conversations: Looking to Art History and Visual Culture at @courtauldres Friday 1st March

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Guess who made a little appearance in this month’s issue of @ArtMonthly 💃🕺 Thanks for including us (& to @SophieGuo9 for the spot!) 💓

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nothing to report here other than that we came into Courtauld matching today 🧢👯‍♀️ #twinning #winning

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hello people! please help Andrew realise his gothic potential 🦇

[Andrew @tweetsbyandrewc]

good people of Twitter: I'm preparing a paper on queerness and the Gothic in contemporary art and was wondering... what books, TV shows, films, artworks, etc. (from anywhere and any time) come to mind when you think of the Gothic? Any + all answers appreciated 🧛‍♀️🧜‍♂️👽👹

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Sorry for the delay in posting this, but we've only just got our heads around it all! Friday really was amazing 💘 Thank you so much again to all our speakers, chairs, and everyone who came for joining the #QueerConversation 🌝 Follow us to stay tuned for future editions🌈

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@rachelwarriner_ Thank you Rachel 💞

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Now for the final discussion of the day with @criticalprvrsn, Sarah Kelleher and Flora Dunster + chaired by @tillyscant, discussing the extent to which ‘queer’ does/doesn’t accommodate different identities, histories + ideas #QueerConversations

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Flora Dunster rounds off the day with her paper about the ‘Sex Wars’ in the 70s/80s, arguing that ‘queer’ needs to take into account feminist debates about porn, S/M & butch/femme occurring during this time #QueerConversations

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Next up is @criticalprvrsn speaking about bisexuality and invisibility in the cinema. He asks: how might bisexual theory trouble interpretations of les(bi)an vampires in 1970s movies? #QueerConversations

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Kicking off the final panel of the day is Sarah Kelleher with a paper on Alice Maher’s ‘Keep’, exploring how the work “manufactures a collective” of diverse communities of women in Ireland #QueerConversations

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now for our round table with @jessiemclaugh, Ryann Donnelly and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, chaired by @tweetsbyandrewc - talking through the ways that queer knowledge might be powerful and disruptive #Queerconversations

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the final talk in our third panel is by Ryann Donnelly titled “Mis-Read or Why Mykki Blanco Never Vogued in their Life: The Hazardous Collocation of Queer Icons”. #QueerConversations

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next is Jessie McLaughlin with a paper titled “A Dead Hen is Dead Hen is Dead When: queer, brown & femme in the art museum”. a fantastic and personal view into what the museum can do to be better to the queer community as well as people of colour #QueerConversations

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our first afternoon session has started with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay - “Reimagining the museum audio guide as a tool of queer spectatorship”. what is the vast potential of queerness for understanding the world via museum mediation? #QueerConversations

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our second panel with @RobertoFilippel and @ecoomasaru chaired by Harry Prance. How does queerness disrupt the myths of the fashion industry, or provide alternative responses to Brexit? #QueerConversations

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now for @ecoomasaru’s paper Hard Brexit Masculinity: Erections, Masturbation, and “Taking Back Control” - exploring how the leave and remain campaigns used metaphors of femininity and ‘failed’ masculinity #QueerConversations

[Ellie Crewes @ellistrate]

#QueerConversations hitting us where it hurts @QueerConvo

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Starting our second panel is @RobertoFilippel with an animated exploration of queerness, sensory experience, and fashion images 💃 #QueerConversations

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We’re onto the next panel at #QueerConversations - @CourtauldRes’ Harry Prance sets the scene for exploring and analysing queer identity in public and private spaces. @QueerConvo

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our first round table with @Hosmeriana and @maryanne_fs chaired by @EmmaMerkling - brilliant discussions on mermaids, queer temporality, representations of the body in Judaic art

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what a rip-roaring paper by @Hosmeriana “Shes a Maneater, Ooo: The Depths of the Sea and Contemporary Culture”